occult
Pronunciation Verb
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Pronunciation Verb
occult (occults, present participle occulting; past and past participle occulted)
- (transitive, astronomy) To cover or hide from view.
- The Earth occults the Moon during a lunar eclipse.
- (transitive, rare) To dissimulate, conceal, or obfuscate.
occult
(medicine) Secret; hidden from general knowledge; undetected. - occult blood loss; occult cancer
- Related to the occult; pertaining to mysticism, magic, or astrology.
- Esoteric.
- 1907, Robert William Chambers, chapter VIII, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, OCLC 24962326 ↗:
- Elbows almost touching they leaned at ease, idly reading the almost obliterated lines engraved there. ¶ "I never understood it," she observed, lightly scornful. "What occult meaning has a sun-dial for the spooney? I'm sure I don't want to read riddles in a strange gentleman's optics."
- German: okkult
- Italian: latente, celato, recondito, nascosto
- Portuguese: oculto, ocultado
- Russian: скры́тый
- Italian: esoterico
occult (uncountable)
- (usually with "the") Supernatural affairs.
- French: occulte, occultisme
- German: Okkult, Okkultismus
- Italian: occulto, occultismo
- Portuguese: oculto, ocultismo
- Russian: оккульти́зм
- Spanish: oculto, ocultismo
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