Thesaurus: occult

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1. a. Hidden from the eye or the understanding; inviable; secret; concealed; unknown.
2. v. t. To eclipse; to hide from sight.
3. adj. hidden and difficult to see
4. adj. having an import not apparent to the senses nor obvious to the intelligence; beyond ordinary understanding
5. n. supernatural forces and events and beings collectively
6. n. supernatural practices and techniques
7. v. cause an eclipse of (a celestial body) by intervention
8. v. become concealed or hidden from view or have its light extinguished
9. v. hide from view
10. Hidden from the eye or the understanding; inviable; secret; concealed; unknown. It is of an occult kind, and is so insensible in its advances as to escape observation. I. Taylor. Occult line (Geom.), a line drawn as a part of the construction of a figure or problem, but not to appear in the finished plan. -- Occult qualities, those qualities whose effects only were observed, but the nature and relations of whose productive agencies were undetermined; -- so called by the schoolmen. -- Occult sciences, those sciences of the Middle Ages which related to the supposed action or influence of occult qualities, or supernatural powers, as alchemy, magic, necromancy, and astrology. To eclipse; to hide from sight.
11. Hidden from the eye or the understanding; inviable; secret;concealed; unknown.It is of an occult kind, and is so insensible in its advances as toescape observation. I. Taylor.Occult line (Geom.), a line drawn as a part of the construction of afigure or problem, but not to appear in the finished plan.-- Occult qualities, those qualities whose effects only wereobserved, but the nature and relations of whose productive agencieswere undetermined; -- so called by the schoolmen.-- Occult sciences, those sciences of the Middle Ages which relatedto the supposed action or influence of occult qualities, orsupernatural powers, as alchemy, magic, necromancy, and astrology.
12. v:31/n:69 n. supernatural practices and techniques v. become concealed or hidden from view or have its light extinguished v. hide from view s. hidden and difficult to see