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occultive en · ADJ

Etymology

From occult + -ive.

Meanings

1. Related to or involving the occult or secret knowledge.
   • To increase the difficulty there is frequent use made of paradox, hyperbole, the indirect and the allusive method: there is often the subtle reference and occultive meaning. 1933, Evan Morgan, Tao, the great luminant: essays from Huai nan tzu:
   • Ikwu Ikili involves some occultive processes. In the process, the items are sent through spirit to the owner's home. 1991, Joseph Chukwu Maduekwe, Umudioka: An Identity of Vital Angles of Ancient Igbo Wisdom, page 83:
   • ... powerful enough to penetrate through the occultive and deceptive tactics of the Rakshasa magic, and that I (Agastya) should so manage that Rama does not fall a prey to the deception so neatly and powerfully employed by the Rakshasas". 1977, Govind Sadashiv Ghurye, Indian acculturation: Agastya and Skanda, page 54:
2. Tending to obscure or occlude.
   • My curiosity over whelm me, trying to explain reason for the occultive act. 2016, Elaine Bailey, Safe: A Spiritual Journey:
   • After five years' occultive gloom, / Once more the iron lilies bloom, / And we can walk at night / Streets newly washed in light. 1945, New Statesman: The Week-end Review, page 115:
   • The occultive properties of both discourses, ethics and politics, have exerted a dominant and disfiguring influence in Rousseau studies. 2006, James L. O'Rourke, Sex, Lies, and Autobiography: The Ethics of Confession, page 191:
   • In 1962, British radio astronomer Cyril Hazard used the moon as an occultive shield to discover strong radio emissions traceable to the constellation Virgo. 2004, K. Lee Lerner, Brenda Wilmoth Lerner, The Gale Encyclopedia of Science: Pheasants-Star, page 3310:

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