Definition of "occultists" []

• Plural form of occultist. (noun)

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• "At Dhoon Castle there is a secret chamber, which has engaged the pens of many so-called occultists, but which no man, save every heir, has entered for generations."
• "But this word inevitably connotes the ideas of physical uncleanness and moral defilement, and its use would thus assist the survival of medieval ideas of the essentially corrupt nature of sexual passion -- such ideas as are exemplified by the quaint survival among certain "occultists" of the medieval doctrine of _incubi_ and _succubi_, by the belief that sexual dreams are induced by the "thought-forms" of other persons tormented by ungratified sexual desire!"
• "Act One is very nearly a comedy about a close-knit group of British occultists; Act Two is a tragedy about Bolshevik "God builders" ­intent on remodeling life on Earth."