To cover or hide from view.
The Earth occults the Moon during a lunar eclipse.
To dissimulate, conceal, or obfuscate.
[…]to do so would occult rather than illuminate the utterly unexpected and surprising character of his coming and of his reign.
Secret; hidden from general knowledge; undetected.
occult blood loss; occult cancer
not visible, but chemically detectable.
occult blood in the urine
Supernatural affairs.
Due to my strong personal convictions / I wish to stress / That this record / In no way endorses / A belief in the occult
Borrowed from Latin occultus (“hidden, secret”).
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Related to the occult; pertaining to mysticism, magic, or astrology.
The concoctions contrived by Italians were particularly in clamant demand, while the occult sciences of astrology and alchemy lent their support[.]