occult
adjective
of or relating to magic, astrology, or any system claiming use or knowledge of secret or supernatural powers or agencies.
occultly
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a word derived from
occult.
Example Sentences
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The boy with the billiard ball said that he had never seen it in his life before, and hazarded the suggestion that it had got into his box through some mysterious and occultly evil agency.
From Adventure by Jack London
But he had no such vision, of course; the very spiritual aversion of those women to such a thought would have prevented it, occultly.
From Her Infinite Variety by Brand Whitlock
Only I am always inclined to believe that philosophic thinking, like music, is involved, however occultly, in high ideality of any kind.
From The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1 of 2) by Sir Frederic G. (Frederic George) Kenyon
Unseen and occultly, the gods still gripped with their power and would not let her go.
From White Fang by Jack London
The nomenclature which has survived from the earlier state is supposed to be deeply and occultly symbolic and the mythic narratives to be deeply and occultly allegoric.
From On Limitations To The Use Of Some Anthropologic Data by John Wesley Powell
