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1641 T. Jordan Pictures of Passions, Fancies, & Affections sig. E3^v They are so much One, that whatsoever Fate Bestows on Him, She doth participate; His Sorrow, is her Sadnesse, and his Mirth (Occultly) doth beget a blooming Birth of Joyes in Her.

1656 B. Harris tr. J. N. de Parival Hist. Iron Age ii. ii. xiii. 265 The affairs of the last Assembly were conducted there so occultly.

1788 T. Taylor tr. Proclus Philos. & Math. Comm. I. 91 Whatever form contains occultly, and in an indistant manner, is produced into the phantasy subsisting with intervals, divisibly and expanded.

1793 T. Taylor Hymns in Sallust On the Gods 162 Thy dreadful shield, in mystic fables fam'd, Occultly signifies the power untam'd.

1842 E. B. Browning Lett. Sept. (1897) I. 109 To believe that philosophic thinking, like music, is involved, however occultly, in high ideality of any kind.

1895 Westm. Gaz. 14 Feb. 2/1 She [sc. Madame Blavatsky]..assured her compatriot that before ever he appeared she knew occultly that he was being ‘drawn towards her’.

1906 J. London White Fang iii. ii. 136 Unseen and occultly, the gods still gripped with their power and would not let her go.

1945 Amer. Econ. Rev. 35 284 In particular, in business circles in this country, it seems often thought that there is something occultly ‘radical’ or anticapitalistic about the Keynesian scheme.

1994 H. Bloom Western Canon iii. xii. 298 Unless one reads this occultly, we appear to have here an equivalent to what Freud called in a great figuration ‘the work of mourning’.