Word Meanings - SECRETIVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Tending to secrete, or to keep secret or private; as, a secretive disposition.
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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 - FURTIVE
Stolen; obtained or characterized by stealth; sly; secret; stealthy; as, a furtive look. Prior. A hasty and furtive ceremony. Hallam. - 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. - SECRETORY
Secreting; performing, or connected with, the office secretion; secernent; as, secretory vessels, nerves. -- n. - 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. - FURTIVELY
Stealthily by theft. Lover. - 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. - CLANDESTINE
Conducted with secrecy; withdrawn from public notice, usually for an evil purpose; kept secret; hidden; private; underhand; as, a clandestine marriage. Locke. Syn. -- Hidden; secret; private; concealed; underhand; sly; stealthy; surreptitious; - 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. - STEALTHY
Done by stealth; accomplished clandestinely; unperceived; secret; furtive; sly. with his stealthy pace, . . . Moves like a ghost. Shak. - SECRETARIAL
Of or pertaining to a secretary; befitting a secretary. Secretarial, diplomatic, or other official training. Carlyle. - 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. - SECRETIVE
Tending to secrete, or to keep secret or private; as, a secretive disposition. - UNDERSECRETARY
A secretary who is subordinate to the chief secretary; an assistant secretary; as, an undersecretary of the Treasury. - 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. - HYPERSECRETION
Morbid or excessive secretion, as in catarrh. - UNSECRET
To disclose; to divulge. Bacon.