occulted

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Verb

1. Simple past tense and past participle of occult

Adjective

occulted

1. Hidden; secret.
   • circa 1600 William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act III, Scene 2,

     […] when thou seest that act afoot,

     Even with the very comment of thy soul

     Observe my uncle. If his occulted guilt

     Do not itself unkennel in one speech,

     It is a damned ghost that we have seen, […]

   • 2019 April 15, Henry Farrell & Abraham Newman, "America’s Misuse of Its Financial Infrastructure", The National Interest.

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2. (astronomy) Concealed, as by a body coming between.
   • 1893, Francis Thompson, Love in Dian’s Lap, VII. “Her Portrait” in Poems, London: Elkin Mathews & John Lane, p. 24,

     […] nigh her lids eclipse

     Each half-occulted star beneath that lies;

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