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Definition of Occults
1. occult [v] - See also: occult
Lexicographical Neighbors of Occults
Literary usage of Occults
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Secrets of the Stars by Inez Nellie Canfield McFee (1922)
"In an eclipse, one heavenly body occults another. The Moon continually occults
the stars behind it. OPPOSITION. The point at which two heavenly bodies are ..."
2. The Elements of Astronomy, Or, The World as it Is, and as it Appears by Anna Cabot Lowell (1850)
"When the moon passes between a fixed star or a planet and the earth, cuts off
its light and occults it. Or what is less observable, when the sun occults a ..."
3. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"... overruns a star, or "occults" it. The star vanishes instantaneously, and, of
course, at the moment of its disappearance the distance from the centre of ..."
4. Publications by Musical Antiquarian Society (1847)
"Tune accipiet calicem in manibus occults lei.atis dicens Father of heaven, I
thanke thee, For all that ever thou doste to me ; Brethren, take this with ..."
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