occultive

English

Etymology

From occult +‎ -ive.

Adjective

occultive (comparative more occultive, superlative most occultive)

1. Related to or involving the occult or secret knowledge.
   • 1933, Evan Morgan, Tao, the great luminant: essays from Huai nan tzu:

     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.

   • 1977, Govind Sadashiv Ghurye, Indian acculturation: Agastya and Skanda, page 54:

     ... 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".

   • 1991, Joseph Chukwu Maduekwe, Umudioka: An Identity of Vital Angles of Ancient Igbo Wisdom, page 83:

     Ikwu Ikili involves some occultive processes. In the process, the items are sent through spirit to the owner's home.

2. Tending to obscure or occlude.
   • 1945, New Statesman: The Week-end Review, page 115:

     After five years' occultive gloom, / Once more the iron lilies bloom, / And we can walk at night / Streets newly washed in light.

   • 2004, K. Lee Lerner, Brenda Wilmoth Lerner, The Gale Encyclopedia of Science: Pheasants-Star, page 3310:

     In 1962, British radio astronomer Cyril Hazard used the moon as an occultive shield to discover strong radio emissions traceable to the constellation Virgo.

   • 2006, James L. O'Rourke, Sex, Lies, and Autobiography: The Ethics of Confession, page 191:

     The occultive properties of both discourses, ethics and politics, have exerted a dominant and disfiguring influence in Rousseau studies.

   • 2016, Elaine Bailey, Safe: A Spiritual Journey:

     My curiosity over whelm me, trying to explain reason for the occultive act.