occulted

English

Verb

occulted

1. simple past and past participle of occult

Adjective

occulted (comparative more occulted, superlative most occulted)

1. Hidden; secret.
   • c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:

     […] when thou seest that act afoot,
     Even with the very comment of thy soul
     Observe my uncle. If his occulted guilt
     Do not itself unkennel in one speech,
     It is a damned ghost that we have seen, […]

   • 2019 April 15, Henry Farrell, Abraham Newman, “America’s Misuse of Its Financial Infrastructure”, in The National Interest:

     Over the last eighteen years, America has quietly created an occulted imperium, quite distinct from the sprawling system of military and naval facilities through which America exerts physical force, based not on high politics, but on control of apparently apolitical plumbing facilities.

2. (astronomy) Concealed, as by a body coming between.
   • 1893, Francis Thompson, Love in Dian’s Lap, VII. “Her Portrait” in Poems, London: Elkin Mathews & John Lane, p. 24,^[1]

     […] nigh her lids eclipse

     Each half-occulted star beneath that lies;

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