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   Oc·cult

   /əˈkəlt/

   

   noun

   • 1. supernatural, mystical, or magical beliefs, practices, or phenomena: "a secret society to study alchemy and the occult"

   adjective

   • 1. of, involving, or relating to supernatural, mystical, or magical powers or phenomena: "a follower of occult practices similar to voodoo"
   • ▪ beyond the range of ordinary knowledge or experience; mysterious: "a weird occult sensation of having experienced the identical situation before"
   • ▪ communicated only to the initiated; esoteric: "the typically occult language of the time"
   • 2. (of a disease or process) not accompanied by readily discernible signs or symptoms.
   • ▪ (of blood) abnormally present, e.g., in feces, but detectable only chemically or microscopically.

   verb

   • 1. cut off from view by interposing something: "a wooden screen designed to occult the competitors"
   • ▪ (of a celestial body) conceal (an apparently smaller body) from view by passing or being in front of it: "the Moon occults Mars during daylight on March 22"

   Word Origin late 15th century (as a verb): from Latin occultare ‘secrete’, frequentative of occulere ‘conceal’, based on celare ‘to hide’; the adjective and noun from occult- ‘covered over’, from the verb occulere.

   Derivatives

   • 1. occultation noun
   • 2. occultism noun
   • 3. occultist noun
   • 4. occultly adverb
   • 5. occultness noun

   Scrabble Points: 10

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