noun
the occult
- supernatural, mystical, or magical beliefs, practices, or phenomena神秘事物; 奥秘的信仰; 奥秘的习俗; 超自然现象：
a secret society to study alchemy and the occult.
研究炼金术和神秘事物的秘密团体。
1
- of, involving, or relating to supernatural, mystical, or magical powers or phenomena超自然（现象）的; 魔法的; 奥秘的：
an occult ceremony.
神秘的仪式。
1.1
- beyond the range of ordinary knowledge or experience; mysterious不可理解的; 神秘的：
a weird occult sensation of having experienced the identical situation before.
一种似曾亲历的怪异、神秘的感觉。
1.2
- communicated only to the initiated; esoteric秘传的; 深奥的：
the typically occult language of the time.
当时典型的秘传语言。
2
- Medicine (of a disease or process) not accompanied by readily discernible signs or symptoms【医】（疾病, 过程）不伴随可见迹象（或症状）的。
2.1
- (of blood) abnormally present, e.g. in faeces, but detectable only chemically or microscopically（血液）（潜）隐的。
with obj.
1- cut off from view by interposing something隔开（使看不见）：
a wooden screen designed to occult the competitors.
把参赛者互相隔开的木屏风。
1.1
- Astronomy (of a celestial body) conceal (an apparently smaller body) from view by passing or being in front of it【天文】（天体）遮蔽。
派生词
occultation
nounoccultism
nounoccultist
nounoccultly
adverboccultness
noun词源
late 15th cent. (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.