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Occult   /əkˈəlt/   Listen
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



... care whether the region they propose to search has been scientifically tested and thought to contain gold. They adhere to the miner's adage, "Gold is where you find it"; and they seem to have some occult power of divination for they have uncovered fabulous fortunes in regions which, like Cripple Creek, had been declared "barren of gold." Yet, as the old settlers say, "Prospectors never get anything out of their finds." Having struck it rich, they take to the ...
— A Mountain Boyhood • Joe Mills
... gift; practically every one of them foresaw the assassination of McKinley. Most of them, however, are gifted in curing diseases. The typical letter reads as follows: "There is a young man living here who seems to be endowed with a wonderful occult power by the use of which he is able to diagnose almost any human ailment. He goes into a trance, and while in this condition the name of the subject is given him, and then without any further questions he proceeds to diagnose his case fully and correctly ...
— Psychology and Social Sanity • Hugo Muensterberg
... doubtless the invention of the singer. It has that abandon which usually characterizes the songs of workers in the occult ...
— The Tinguian - Social, Religious, and Economic Life of a Philippine Tribe • Fay-Cooper Cole
... reaches the intelligence in other ways. . . . Because a fact is rare is no reason that it does not exist. Because a study is difficult, is that a reason for not understanding it? . . . Those who have railed at metaphysics as an occult science will be as ashamed of themselves as those who railed at chemistry on the ground that pursuit of the philosopher's stone was illusory. . . . In the matter of principles there are only those of Lavoisier, Claude Bernard, and Pasteur-the EXPERIMENTAL everywhere and always. Greetings, ...
— Autobiography of a YOGI • Paramhansa Yogananda
... him until he was out of sight; for some occult reason, not comprehensible even to her, she felt interested in the old man, although she had never spoken to him; but he looked old and ill and lonely; three decided claims on Olivia's bountiful ...
— Doctor Luttrell's First Patient • Rosa Nouchette Carey


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