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Occult

noun

1.

Supernatural forces and events and beings collectively. Synonym: supernatural.

2.

Supernatural practices and techniques. Synonym: occult arts.

verb

1.

Cause an eclipse of (a celestial body) by intervention. Synonym: eclipse. "Planets and stars often are occulted by other celestial bodies"

2.

Become concealed or hidden from view or have its light extinguished.

3.

Hide from view.

adjective

1.

Hidden and difficult to see. "Occult blood in the stool"

2.

Having an import not apparent to the senses nor obvious to the intelligence; beyond ordinary understanding. Synonyms: mysterious, mystic, mystical, orphic, secret. "The mystical style of Blake" , "Occult lore" , "The secret learning of the ancients"

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"Occult" Quotes from Famous Books

... required a faith so childlike as to verge on the imbecile. Conversation during deals had an awkward tendency towards discussion of the coal strike. As often as it drifted there the subject was changed very abruptly, just as if there was some occult reason for not speaking of so natural a topic. It concerned everybody, but it was rightly felt to concern ...

— Miss Mapp • Edward Frederic Benson

... plane, could undoubtedly move and elevate and place in position the largest blocks that enter into the pyramids or—what seems even more wonderful—the most gigantic obelisks, without the aid of any other kind of mechanism or of any more occult power. The same hands could, as Diodorus suggests, remove all trace of the debris of construction and leave the pyramids and obelisks standing in weird isolation, as if sprung into ...

— A History of Science, Volume 1(of 5) • Henry Smith Williams

... the sin or folly of men, He ever permits them to be accomplished. It may not seem, from the general language held concerning them, or from any directly traceable results, that mountains have had serious influence on human intellect; but it will not, I think, be difficult to show that their occult influence has been both constant and essential to the progress ...

— Selections From the Works of John Ruskin • John Ruskin

... number of causes. It may be due to a lack of poetic appreciation on the part of the teacher, leading to poor judgment in selecting and presenting poetry. It may be due to the feeling that there is something occult and mysterious about poetry that puts it outside the range of common interests, or to the idea that the technique of verse must in some way be emphasized. The first step in using poetry successfully with children is ...

— Children's Literature - A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes • Charles Madison Curry

... the languages, and a few useful words and phrases stuck. He plunged into the sciences, and arose from the immersion dripping with a smattering of astronomy, chemistry, biology, archaeology, and what not. The occult was to him an open book, and he was wont temporarily to paralyze the small talk of social gatherings with dissertations upon the teachings of the ancients which he had swallowed at a gulp. He criticised the schools of modern painting ...

— The Man from the Bitter Roots • Caroline Lockhart

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