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noun

Occultation n.

(Astron.) The hiding of a heavenly body from sight by the intervention of some other of the heavenly bodies; applied especially to eclipses of stars and planets by the moon, and to the eclipses of satellites of planets by their primaries.

(Fig.:) The state of being occult. "The reappearance of such an author after those long periods of occultation."

Circle of perpetual occultation. See under Circle.

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Etymology of 'Occultation'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Occultation" Quotes from Famous Books

... juncture, of such gear from the Earl of Argyle, by such a Judith of courage and wisdom as the Lady Sophia Lindsay, seemed to me very remarkable, and I could not but jealouse that there was some thing about it like the occultation of a graver correspondence. I therefore began to question Mrs Brownlee how the paraphernalia had come, and what the Earl, according to the last accounts, was doing; which led her to expatiate on many things, though vague and desultory, that were yet in concordance with what I ...

— Ringan Gilhaize - or The Covenanters • John Galt

... The place which the Greek and Latin authors have come to occupy in the estimation of European scholars is due, not entirely to their intrinsic merits, great as those merits unquestionably are, but in part to traditional prepossessions. When after a millennial occultation the classics, and especially, with the fall of the Palaeologi, the Greek classics burst upon Western Europe, there was no literature with which to compare them. The Jewish Scriptures were not regarded as literature by readers of the Vulgate. Dante, it ...

— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 107, September, 1866 • Various

... myself ridiculous. But what earthly chance would the greatest philosopher that ever lived have with the woman he loved, if he depended for her favor on his ability to analyze her bouquet or tell her when she might look out for the next occultation of Orion? I can't talk bread and butter. I can't do anything that makes a man even tolerable ...

— A Brace Of Boys - 1867, From "Little Brother" • Fitz Hugh Ludlow

Words linked to "Occultation" : lunar eclipse, total eclipse, ingress, immersion, eclipse, break, egress, solar eclipse