Word Meanings - CABALISM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. The secret science of the cabalists. 2. A superstitious devotion to the mysteries of the religion which one professes. Emerson.

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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
• DEVOTIONALLY
  In a devotional manner; toward devotion.
• 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
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• 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.
• RELIGION
  A monastic or religious order subject to a regulated mode of life; the religious state; as, to enter religion. Trench. A good man was there of religion. Chaucer. 4. Strictness of fidelity in conforming to any practice, as if it were an enjoined
• RELIGIONISM
  1. The practice of, or devotion to, religion. 2. Affectation or pretense of religion.
• WHICH
  the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
• SECRETNESS
  1. The state or quality of being secret, hid, or concealed. 2. Secretiveness; concealment. Donne.
• SUPERSTITIOUS
  1. Of or pertaining to superstition; proceeding from, or manifesting, superstition; as, superstitious rites; superstitious observances. 2. Evincing superstition; overscrupulous and rigid in religious observances; addicted to superstition; full
• DEVOTIONAL
  Pertaining to, suited to, or used in, devotion; as, a devotional posture; devotional exercises; a devotional frame of mind.
• 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.
• RELIGIONIZE
  To bring under the influence of religion. Mallock.
• SECRETITIOUS
  Parted by animal secretion; as, secretitious humors. Floyer.
• SECRETLY
  In a secret manner.
• DEVOTION
  1. The act of devoting; consecration. 2. The state of being devoted; addiction; eager inclination; strong attachment love or affection; zeal; especially, feelings toward God appropriately expressed by acts of worship; devoutness. Genius animated
• DEVOTIONALITY
  The practice of a devotionalist. A. H. Clough.
• 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.
• UNDERSECRETARY
  A secretary who is subordinate to the chief secretary; an assistant secretary; as, an undersecretary of the Treasury.
• CORRELIGIONIST
  A co-religion
• PRESCIENCE
  Knowledge of events before they take place; foresight. God's certain prescience of the volitions of moral agents. J. Edwards.
• SELF-DEVOTION
  The act of devoting one's self, or the state of being self- devoted; willingness to sacrifice one's own advantage or happiness for the sake of others; self-sacrifice.
• 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.