occultist

noun
/əˈkʌltɪst/

Etymology

From occult + -ist.

Definitions

  1. A person who practises or studies occultism

    A person who practises or studies occultism; a practitioner of, or person learned in, the occult.

    • Albertus Magnus, the thirteenth century philosopher and occultist, states that coriander, valerian, and violet are love producing herbs.
    • In the early 1930s, he fell under the spell of a wife-beating, alcoholic, Austrian occultist called Karl Maria Wiligut and a Dutch prehistorian called Herman Wirth, whose views further fed his fantastical illusions.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for occultist. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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