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occult

[uh-kuhlt, ok-uhlt] / əˈkʌlt, ˈɒk ʌlt /


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Occult pyrotechnics and bloody business of all kinds are not allowed to obscure the interior shifts of the shifty Macbeths.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 19, 2025

The "innovative" MA in Magic and Occult Science has been created following a "recent surge in interest in magic", the course leader said.

From BBC • Oct. 3, 2023

Shortly after the first archeologist death a few months following the tomb’s discovery, newspaper headlines blared about the “Curse of the Pharaohs” and claimed, “Famous Spiritualist Sees Occult Reason for Fatality.”

From Washington Post • Nov. 4, 2022

On a recent visit, it displayed titles like “Mussolini Boys” and “The Occult Origins of Nazism.”

From New York Times • Sep. 21, 2022

Substantial Forms, Occult Qualities, Intentional Species, Idiosyncrasies, Sympathies and Antipathies of Things, are exploded...because they are only empty Sounds, Words whereof no Man can form a certain and determinate Idea.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton




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