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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    Conducted with secrecy; withdrawn from public notice, usually for an evil purpose; kept secret; hidden; private; underhand; as, a clandestine marriage.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.

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