Word Meanings - ESOTERICS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Mysterious or hidden doctrines; secret science.

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• SECRETE
  To separate from the blood and elaborate by the process of secretion; to elaborate and emit as a secretion. See Secretion. Why one set of cells should secrete bile, another urea, and so on, we do not known. Carpenter. Syn. -- To conceal; hide. See
• SECRETARY
  secretari, Sp. & Pg. secretario, It. secretario, segretario) LL. secretarius, originally, a confidant, one intrusted with secrets, 1. One who keeps, or is intrusted with, secrets. 2. A person employed to write orders, letters, dispatches, public
• SECRET
  segreto), fr. L. secretus, p.p. of secrernere to put apart, to 1. Hidden; concealed; as, secret treasure; secret plans; a secret vow. Shak. The secret things belong unto the Lord our God; but those things which are revealed belong unto us. Deut.
• SECRETNESS
  1. The state or quality of being secret, hid, or concealed. 2. Secretiveness; concealment. Donne.
• MYSTERIOUSLY
  In a mysterious manner.
• HIDDEN
  from Hide. Concealed; put out of view; secret; not known; mysterious. Hidden fifths or octaves , consecutive fifths or octaves, not sounded, but suggested or implied in the parallel motion of two parts towards a fifth or an octave. Syn. -- Hidden,
• SECRETORY
  Secreting; performing, or connected with, the office secretion; secernent; as, secretory vessels, nerves. -- n.
• MYSTERIOUSNESS
  1. The state or quality of being mysterious. 2. Something mysterious; a mystery. Jer. Taylor.
• HIDDENLY
  In a hidden manner.
• SECRETARIAT; SECRETARIATE
  The office of a secretary; the place where a secretary transacts business, keeps records, etc.
• SECRETITIOUS
  Parted by animal secretion; as, secretitious humors. Floyer.
• SECRETLY
  In a secret manner.
• SECRETARYSHIP
  The office, or the term of office, of a secretary.
• SECRETO-MOTORY
  Causing secretion; -- said of nerves which go to glands and influence secretion.
• SECRETAGE
  A process in which mercury, or some of its salts, is employed to impart the property of felting to certain kinds of furs. Ure.
• SECRETARIAL
  Of or pertaining to a secretary; befitting a secretary. Secretarial, diplomatic, or other official training. Carlyle.
• HIDDENITE
  An emerald-green variety of spodumene found in North Carolina; lithia emerald, -- used as a gem.
• SECRETION
  The act of secreting; the process by which material is separated from the blood through the agency of the cells of the various glands and elaborated by the cells into new substances so as to form the various secretions, as the saliva, bile, and
• SECRETIST
  A dealer in secrets.
• SECRET SERVICE
  The detective service of a government. In the United States, in time of peace the bureau of secret service is under the treasury department, and in time of war it aids the war department in securing information concerning the movements of the enemy.
• UNDERSECRETARY
  A secretary who is subordinate to the chief secretary; an assistant secretary; as, an undersecretary of the Treasury.
• PRESCIENCE
  Knowledge of events before they take place; foresight. God's certain prescience of the volitions of moral agents. J. Edwards.
• OMNISCIENCE
  The quality or state of being omniscient; -- an attribute peculiar to God. Dryden.
• UNSCIENCE
  Want of science or knowledge; ignorance. If that any wight ween a thing to be otherwise than it is, it is not only unscience, but it is deceivable opinion. Chaucer.
• CONSCIENCE
  consciens, p.pr. of conscire to know, to be conscious; con- + scire 1. Knowledge of one's own thoughts or actions; consciousness. The sweetest cordial we receive, at last, Is conscience of our virtuous actions past. Denham. 2. The faculty, power,
• CONSCIENCED
  Having a conscience. "Soft-conscienced men." Shak.
• EXCITO-SECRETORY
  Exciting secretion; -- said of the influence exerted by reflex action on the function of secretion, by which the various glands are excited to action.
• NESCIENCE
  Want of knowledge; ignorance; agnosticism. God fetched it about for me, in that absence and nescience of mine. Bp. Hall.
• HYPERSECRETION
  Morbid or excessive secretion, as in catarrh.