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Occulted   Listen
adjective
Occulted  adj.  
1.
Hidden; secret. (Obs.)
2.
(Astron.) Concealed by the intervention of some other heavenly body, as a star by the moon.





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"Occulted" Quotes from Famous Books



... failure to detect any effects of refraction in the light of stars occulted by comets, it was inferred (though, as we know now, erroneously) that their composition is rather that of dust than that of vapour; that they consist not of any continuous substance, but of discrete solid particles, very finely divided and widely scattered. In conformity with ...
— A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century - Fourth Edition • Agnes M. (Agnes Mary) Clerke
... the king One scene of it comes near the circumstance Which I have told thee of my father's death. I prithee, when thou seest that act afoot, Even with the very comment of thy soul Observe mine uncle; if his occulted guilt Do not itself unkennel in one speech, It is a damned ghost that we have seen, And my imaginations are as foul As Vulcan's stithy; give him heedful note. For I mine eyes will rivet to his face, And, after, we will both our ...
— The Canadian Elocutionist • Anna Kelsey Howard


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