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   occult

   /əˈkʌlt/

   noun

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

   adjective

   • 1. involving or relating to mystical, supernatural, or magical powers, practices, or phenomena: "an occult ceremony"
   • ▪ 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: "careful palpation sometimes discloses occult spina bifida"
   • ▪ (of blood) abnormally present, e.g. in faeces, 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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