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  1. 1. a. Hidden from the eye or the understanding; inviable; secret; concealed; unknown. Source: opted
  2. 2. v. t. To eclipse; to hide from sight. Source: opted
  3. 3. adj. hidden and difficult to see Source: wordnet
  4. 4. adj. having an import not apparent to the senses nor obvious to the intelligence; beyond ordinary understanding Source: wordnet
  5. 5. n. supernatural forces and events and beings collectively Source: wordnet
  6. 6. n. supernatural practices and techniques Source: wordnet
  7. 7. v. cause an eclipse of (a celestial body) by intervention Source: wordnet
  8. 8. v. become concealed or hidden from view or have its light extinguished Source: wordnet
  9. 9. v. hide from view Source: wordnet
  10. 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. Source: webster
  11. 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. Source: adambom
  12. 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 Source: ecdict

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