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Grammar : Verb
Spell : uh-kuhlt, ok-uhlt
Phonetic Transcription : əˈkʌlt, ˈɒk ʌlt

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Définition of occulted

Origin :
  • 1530s, "secret, not divulged," from Middle French occulte and directly from Latin occultus "hidden, concealed, secret," past participle of occulere "cover over, conceal," from ob "over" (see ob-) + a verb related to celare "to hide," from PIE root *kel- "to hide" (see cell). Meaning "not apprehended by the mind, beyond the range of understanding" is from 1540s. The association with the supernatural sciences (magic, alchemy, astrology, etc.) dates from 1630s.
  • As in bury : verb conceal, cover
  • As in stash : verb hide
Example sentences :
  • (Callisto) was occulted by the planet's disc; while Satellite II.
  • Extract from : « Astronomy of To-day » by Cecil G. Dolmage
  • Mercury is said to have been occulted by Venus in the year 1737.
  • Extract from : « Astronomical Curiosities » by J. Ellard Gore
  • Calvisius supposed that the occulted “star” might have been Aldebaran.
  • Extract from : « Astronomical Curiosities » by J. Ellard Gore
  • A faintest, tiny blur against the stars, a few of them occulted as though an invisible shadow were upon them.
  • Extract from : « Brigands of the Moon » by Ray Cummings
  • In another moment the higher of the villas that had clambered up the hill from Burdock had occulted the running figure.
  • Extract from : « The Invisible Man » by H. G. Wells
  • A faintest tiny blur against the stars, a few of them occulted as though strangely an invisible shadow were upon them.
  • Extract from : « Astounding Stories of Super-Science, May, 1930 » by Various
  • Her kisses were big things to him, yet possibly there were larger psychological changes which occulted everything else, at first.
  • Extract from : « The Trail of the Hawk » by Sinclair Lewis
  • Indicating it as being vital and intrinsic, at one with the occulted sources of Life.
  • Extract from : « Feminism and Sex-Extinction » by Arabella Kenealy
  • It was a remote star, one of myriads in the constellations at large, the definite groups which occulted in the void before me.
  • Extract from : « Old Junk » by H. M. Tomlinson
  • First, when the moon is occulted by the earth it is believed to be devoured by some evil demon, or by wolves or dogs.
  • Extract from : « Moon Lore » by Timothy Harley

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