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planet from sight by its pnssi 
other of the heavenly bodies. 
ic behind some 
up, <. iicciinii ii . otner of tne neavemy oouies. Ft is partirular- 
-.] 1. A shut- ly applied to the echpse of a fixed star by the 
.,!//>,./ lln. in.i.,,1 O l''iiritr;t i v !! V rliu!mm>ttnilU-P from 
occlusion (o-klo'zhon), . [= F. oecl union, < 
I,, as if "occluKio(ii-), a shutting up, <.occlinlrrf. 
pp. OCC/KSM.S-, shut up: si-t- iH-c/nile,] 1. A shut- ... . 
ling up: in-losing; specifically, in pathol., the moon. 2. Figuratively, disappearance from 
total or partial closure of a vessel, cavity, or view; withdrawal from notice. 
hollow organ; imperforation. 2. In physics The re-appearance of such an author after those long 
amlt -In HI. .tilt-art Of occluding, or absorbing Mid periods of uccuitafiim. Jeffrey. 
ront-fiiliii"; tin- state of being occluded. See We had one buttle to celebrate the appearance of our 
occlmle.- Intestinal occlusion, obstruction of the in- visionary Minn, . let in, ^ have a nd to console us I (or 
ttmOttt. .-! by twisting (volvulus), intussusception, fecal U* occultatwn. It. L. Stevenson, Ireasur 
impaction, stricture, pressure from without as by bands, Circle of perpetual OCCUltation, a small circle of the 
tumors, ami otherwise. celestial sphere parallel to the equator, as far distant ti om 
OCClUBlVe (o-kld'siv), a. [< L. occtusus, pp. of the depressed pole as the elevated pole 1s from the horl- 
occlmlere, close up (see occlude), + -iff.] Clou- f?n. It contains all those stars which are never visll 
._.: :Ll,.^ ;,, the station considered. It Is contrasted with the circle of 
ing ; serving to close : as, an occlifgire dressing ^ ^ rM>ltm 
Cor a wound. Mnlimt Ac/, LIU. lit. occultism (o-kul'tmu), . [< occult + 
OCClU80r(o-klii'sor),.; pi. occlusoren (oK-\Q-ao - 
-is HI.] 
, The doctrine, practice, or rites of things oc- 
rez). [XL., < L. oceludere, pp. occlmus, close CU H or mysterious; the occult sciences or their 
up: see occlude.] That which occludes: used stu( i y . mysticism; esotericism. 
^^%STCSSrS li ;Vh verpreP S s r lo,,Imayhave D .d W ered te ,,nc,,y 
closed up, and in brachiopods specifically ap- R. Hodgson, Proc. Soc. Psych. Research, III. 208. 
. , . 
plied to the anterior retractor muscles. See Occu i t i 8 t (o-kul'tist), n. [< occult + -ist.] One 
wno believes or is versed in occultism; an ini- 
tiate in the occult sciences; amysticoresoterist. 
This celebrated ancient magical work, the foundation 
and fountain-head of much of the ceremonial magic of the 
mediaeval ocaUtiiti, has never before been printed in Eng- 
lish. The Academy, Sept. 2-2, 1888, p. 190. 
cut under IMguHaa. 
A large digastric occlwwr muscle lies on the ventral side 
of the stoinodieum. Micros. Science, XXX. II. 113. 
occrustatet (o-krus'tat), c. /. [< ML. as if *oc- 
cruxlatiix, pp. of "occrutttare, incrust, < L. ob, be- 
foi-i'.+ crnxtiin; crust: see mint, crux/ate.] To 
in, -;iso as in a crust; harden. l>r. H. More, De- occultly (o-kult'li), adv. In an occult manner ; 
fence of Moral Cabbala, iii. by means of or with reference to occultism. 
occult (o-kulf), a. [= F. occulte = Sp. oeulto occultness (o-kult'nes), w. The state of being 
= Pg. It. oecitlto, < L. occiiltus, hidden, conceal- occult, hidden, or unknown; secretness. 
ed, secret, obscure, pp. of oceutere, cover over, occupancy (ok'u-pan-si), n. [< occupan(t) + 
hide, conceal, < ob, overj before, + 'calere, in -cy.\ 1. The act of taking possession, or the 
secondary form celare, hide, conceal: see cell, being in actual possession ; more specifically, in 
conceal.'] 1. Not apparent upon mere iuspec- faip, the taking possession of a thing not belong- 
tion, nor deducible from what is so apparent, i n g to any person, and the right acquired by 
but discoverable only by experimentation; re- 8 uchact; that modeofacquiringproperty which 
lating to what is thus undisepverable by mere j s founded on the principle that he who takes 
insjiection: opposed to manifest. The Latin word 
was applied in the middle ages to the ' 
possession of an ownerless thing, with the de- 
sical sciences g jg n o f appropriating it to himself, thereby be- 
6 thetreatlse comes the owner of it ; the act of occupying or 
holding in actual as distinguished from con- 
structive possession. Formerly, when a man held 
land pur autre vie (for the life of another), and died before 
that other, as his estate could not descend to his heir nor 
revert to the donor until the determination of the speci- 
fied life, It was considered to belong of right to the first 
who took possession of it for the remainder of the life, 
and such possession was termed general occupancy. And 
when the gift was to one and his heirs for the life of an- 
other, the heir was said to take as special occupant. As 
the law now stands, however, a man is enabled to devise 
lands held by him pur autre vie, and if no such devise be 
made, and there be no special occupant, it goes to his ex- 
ecutors or administrators. 
As we before observed that occupancy gave the right to 
the temporary use of the soil, so it is agreed upon all hands 
that occupancy gave also the original right to the perma- 
nent property in the substance of the earth itself ; which 
excludes every one else but the owner from the use of It. 
Blackstone, Com., n. 1. 
2. The term during which one is an occupant: 
as, during his occupancy of the post. 
ii ,n H vi me ii iiuv i .-'i.iiniiiiK- .. . ._ *\ ' r/ n A. ^ T 
Kmerson, Hist, Essays, Istser., p. 14. occupant (ok'u-pant), . [< F. occupant, < L. 
occupan (t-)s, ppr. of occupare, occupy: see oc- 
cupy.] 1. One who occupies; an inhabitant; 
especially, one in actual possession, as a tenant, 
who has actual possession, in distinction from 
the landlord, who has legal or constructive pos- 
session. 
The palace of Diocletian had but one occupan/; after the 
founder no Emperor had dwelled in it. 
E. A. Freeman, Venice, p. 145. 
2. More specifically, in law, one who first takes 
possession of that which has no legal owner. 
3f. A prostitute. 
He with his occupant 
Are cllng'd so close, like dew-wormes in the niorne, 
That he'll not stir. 
Marston, Scourge of Villainy, vll. 134. 
"lie Magnete" of Petrus Peregrfnus. He says that an 
occult quality is simply one which is made apparent only 
upon experimentation, but that in that way It becomes as 
plain and clear as any other quality, and is no more mys- 
terious. By occult science or philosophy was meant simply 
experimental science. There were many occult philoso- 
phers in northern Europe in the twelfth and the first part 
of the thirteenth century ; but theology so swallowed up 
other interests that they arc all forgotten except Roger 
Bacon, who was made prominent by the personal friend- 
ship of a pope. The ignorance and superstition of the 
time confounded occult science with magic. 
These are manifest qualities, and their causes only are 
occult. Seicton, Opticks. 
His [Dr. Dee's] personal history may serve as a canvas 
for the picture of an occult philosopher his reveries, his 
ambition, and his calamity. 
/. D' Israeli, Amen, of Lit, II. 286. 
2. Mysterious; transcendental; beyond the 
bounds of natural knowledge. 
The resemblance Is nowise obvious to the senses, but Is 
in-full and out of the reach of the understanding. 
Occult crimes. See crime. Occult diseases, In ined., 
those diseases the cause and treatment of whicn are not 
unilerstood. Occult lines, such lines as are used in the 
construction of a drawing, but do not appear in the finished 
work ; also, dotted lines. Occult qualities, those quali- 
ties of body or spirit which battled the investigation of the 
ancient philosophers, and which were not deducible from 
manifest qualities, nor discoverable without experimen- 
tation. 
The Aristotelians gave the name of occult Qtuilitiet . . . 
to such Qualities only as they supposed to lie hid in Bodies, 
and to be the unknown ranges of manifest Effects. 
XI-H-IHH, Opticks (ed. 1721), p. 377. 
Occult sciences, the physical sciences of the middle 
ages: sometimes extended to include magic. See def. 1. 
= Syn. Latent, Coafrt, etc. (see secrtt\ unrevealed, recon- 
dite, abstruse, veiled, shrouded, mystic, cabalistic. 
occult (o-kulf), ('. (. [= F. or cutter =_Sp. ocul- 
ttir = Pg. 
ncciiltar = It. occultare, < L.* occul- occupatet (ok'u-pat), v. [< L. occupatux, pp. 
of occupare, occupy : see occupy.] I. trans. To 
tare, hide, conceal, freq. of occulere, pp. occul- 
tus, hide : see occult, a.] To cut off from view 
by the intervention of another body; hide; 
conceal; eclipse. 
I undertake to show that a false definition of lite, name- 
ly that life is function, has contributed to occult the soul. 
Westminster Ret., CXXVIII. 747. 
take possession of ; possess; occupy. 
The spirits of the wine oppress the spirits animal, and 
occupate part of the place where they are, and so make 
them weak to move. Bacon, Nat. Hist., 8 724. 
II. tntrans. To dwell. 
The several faculties of the mind do take and occupate 
in the organs of the body. 
Bacon, Advancement of Learning, 11. 187. 
Occulting eyepiece, an eyepiece provided with an attach- 
ment by which an object or objects not under examination 
may be hidden from view when desired : It has been used . T 
in photometric work. OCCUpatfit (ok u-pat), a. [< L. occiqxHux, pp. : 
OCCUltation (ok-ul-tii'shoii). . [= F. oeculta- see occupate, r.] Occupied. Bacon, Advance- 
tiim = Sp. m-iiltai'iiin Pg. occiilttiydo = It. oc- uient of Learning, ii. 380. 
cn/t<i.:ion<; < L. (i,-i-ii/ltitiii(ii-), abiding, conceal- occupation (ok-u-pa'shon), H. [< ME. <>c<-ii/,ii- 
iiig, < oeeutliirr, hide, conceal: see occult, i'.] tion, occupation, C OF. MpMpottoft, occvfHufon, 
1. The act of hiding or concealing, or the state F. occupation = Sp. m-npacion = Pg. oetHfaetto 
of being hidden or coiu-i-alcd; especially, the = It. MBtgMUfoM, < L. MMMff0(l-), a taking 
hilling of one body from sight by another; spe- possession, occupying, a business, employment, 
i-itioally, in astro*., the hiding of a star or < occupare, take possession, occupy: see <<- 
occupier 
puti; wcyy.J 1. Thi-ni't nf -iipying or tak- 
ing possession ; a holding or keeping; posses 
sion; tenure. 
I speak not of matches or unions, but of arms, occupa- 
tion*, invasions. Bacon. 
I give unto my said wife . . . the two tenements and 
six acres of land lying by I.even heath In the ttccupation of 
: blank 1 Cokcr. Wiuiltrn/i, Hist. New England, II. 4S7. 
The house was at that time in the uccupatiun of a sub- 
stantlal yeoman. Lamb, Hackery End. 
2. The state of being occupied or employed 
in any way; employment; use: as, omii>ali<>ii 
with important affairs. 
Also whoo-so-euer of the said crafte set ony senraunt yn 
occupation of the said crafte ouer iiij. wekys and o 'by. 
to forfete xlj. d. Knyliih OOdt (E. E. T. .\ p. 330. 
They haue bene the Idle occupation*, or perchaunce the 
malltlous and craftle constructions, of the Talniudiiti and 
others of the Hebrue clerks. 
Puttenham, Arte of Eng. Poesle, p. 01. 
The writing of chittiea for the servants was alone the 
occupation of some hours. 
W. II. Rumett, Diary In India, II. 222. 
3. That to which one's time and attention are 
habitually devoted ; habitual or stated employ- 
ment; vocation; calling; trade; business. 
But he that Is idel, and casteth him to no businesse ne 
occupation, shal falle Into poverte, and die for hunger. 
Chaucer, Tale of Melibcus. 
By their occupation they were tent-makers. Acts xviiL 3. 
Ho occupation ; all men idle, all. 
Sliat., Tempest, ii. 1. 164. 
A castle In the Air, 
Where Life, without the least foundation, 
Became a charming occupation. 
F. Locker, Castle In the Air. 
4f. Use; benefit; profit. 
The eyen of thaire germynacion 
With pulling wol disclose after the ferme |nrst| 
Yere, and to brcke hem vccvpacion 
That tyme is nought. 
Palladiui, Husbondrie (E. E. T. 8.), p. 113. 
5f. Consumption; waste. 
The science of makynge of tier withoute fler. wherby 30 
may make oure qulnte essence withonte cost or traueile, 
and withoute occupacioun and lesynge of tyme. 
Book of i in! uii' Essence (ed. Kiirni\ all), p. 6. 
Army of occupation, an army left in possession of a 
newly conquered country until peace is signed or in- 
demnity paid, or until a settled and responsible govern- 
ment has been established. 
In Egypt our army of occupation continues inactive and 
on a reduced scale. Fortnujhtly Kev., X. 8., XL. 13. 
Occupation bridge, abridge carried over or under a line 
of railway or canal to connect the parts of a farm or an es- 
tate severed by the line or canal. Occupation road, a 
private road for the use of the occupiers of the land. = Syn. 
3. Occupation, Calling, Vocatitm, Employment, Pursuit, 
Business, Trade, Craft, Profession, Office. In regard to 
what a person does as a regular work or a means of earn- 
ing a livelihood, occupation is that which occupies or takes 
up his time, strength, and thought ; callina and vocation are 
high words, indicating that one is called ny Providence to 
a particular line of work ; calling is Anglo-Saxon and fa- 
miliar, and mi-Hi i' i a is Latin and lofty (the words are not al- 
ways used In the higher sense of divine appointment or the 
call of duty, but it Is much better to save thtm for the ex- 
pression of that Idea) ; employment Is essentially the same 
as occupation; pursuit is the line of work which one pur- 
sues or follows; business suggests something of the man- 
agement of buying and selling ; ti-tulr and prnfessitm stand 
over against each other for the less and more Intellectual 
pursuits, as the trade of a carpenter, the profession of an 
architect; trade is different from a trade, the latter being 
skill in some handicraft : as, being obliged to learn a trade, 
he chose that of a blacksmith ; the "learned pnrfetsiont ' 
used to be law, medicine, and the ministry, but the num- 
ber Is now increased; craft Is an old word for a trade; 
office suggests the Idea of duties to be performed for others. 
See avocation, 5. 
occupational (ok-u-pa'shon-al), a. [< occupa- 
tion + -al.] Of or pertaining to a particular 
occupation, calling, or trade : as, tables of ocen- 
pational mortality. 
occupationert (ok-u-pa'shon-er), w. [< occupa- 
tion + -er%.] One who is employed in any trade 
or occupation. 
Let the brave enginer, . . . marvelous Vulcanlst, and 
every Mercuriall occvpationcr ... be respected. 
Harvey, Plerce's Supererogation. 
OCCUpative (ok'u-pa-tiv), a. [< OF. occupatif: 
as occupate + -ii-c.] In law, held by that form 
of tenure which is based on the occupation or 
seizing and holding in actual possession of that 
which was without owner when occupied : as, 
an occupatire field. 
occupier (ok'u-pi-er), . 1. One who occupies 
or takes possession, as of ownerless land. 2. 
One who holds or is in actual possession ; an oc- 
cupant : as, houseowners and occupiers. 
No wrong was to be done to any existing occupiers. Xo 
right of property was to be violated. 
Froude, Ciesar, p. 191. 
3f. One who uses, lays out, or employs that 
which is possessed; a trader or dealer. 
All their causes, differences, variances, controiienln, 
quarrels, and complaints, within any our realmes, doinfu- 
