Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Hidden; secret.
- adjective (Astron.) Concealed by the intervention of some other heavenly body, as a star by the moon.
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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
occult .
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Examples
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At times it must be bridged on an ad hoc basis, as when the party occulted its advocacy of gun control laws.
Stromata Blog: 2008
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When reading engages coded alphabetic symbols and generates through them a poetic setting in the head, or a narrative scenario, the reader has not entered upon the imaginary via some magic auscultation, some occulted relation to a speaking authorial presence.
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At times it must be bridged on an ad hoc basis, as when the party occulted its advocacy of gun control laws.
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The sun was partially occulted by menacing cloud that clotted the sky with the threat or promise of a shower to follow.
Excerpt from Codex Infinitum Kane X. Faucher 2010
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Only the return of the “occulted” Mahdi would bring justice to earth.
A Privilege to Die Thanassis Cambanis 2010
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I'm a horror writer myself, so will make some mention of his connection to the popular culture, but am primarily interested in digging up the Poe that rests partially occulted under a big pile of fourth grade school assignments and such.
Nick Mamatas' Journal nihilistic_kid 2009
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My guess: a 5 in front of an occulted sun with a coronal mass ejection in the upper right.
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My guess: a 5 in front of an occulted sun with a coronal mass ejection in the upper right.
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OpEdNews - Article: What's being occulted at COP 15: Fish Wars, Hydraulic conflicts, Water Wars - Climate change wars have already begun
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It should be made clear also, however, that it is not just LOS that has insinuated an occulted oil agenda in such seismic scholarship.
More Anti-Science Eco-Activism in British Columbia - The Panda's Thumb 2009
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