Word Meanings - SILENTIARY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One appointed to keep silence and order in court; also, one sworn not to divulge secre

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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
• SECRECY
  1. The state or quality of being hidden; as, his movements were detected in spite of their secrecy. The Lady Anne, Whom the king hath in secrecy long married. Shak. 2. That which is concealed; a secret. Shak. 3. Seclusion; privacy; retirement.
• SWORN
  p. p. of Swear. Sworn brothers, originally, companions in arms who took an oath to share together good and bad fortune; hence, faithful friends. -- Sworn enemies, determined or irreconcilable enemies. -- Sworn friends, close friends.
• COURTESAN
  A woman who prostitutes herself for hire; a prostitute; a harlot. Lasciviously decked like a courtesan. Sir H. Wotton. (more info) courtier, It. cortigiano; or directly fr. It. cortigiana, or Sp.
• COURT TENNIS
  See TENNIS
• COURT-CUPBOARD
  A movable sideboard or buffet, on which plate and other articles of luxury were displayed on special ocasions. A way with the joint stools, remove the court-cupboard, look to the plate. Shak.
• APPOINTER
  One who appoints, or executes a power of appointment. Kent.
• 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.
• COURTEPY
  A short coat of coarse cloth. Full threadbare was his overeste courtepy. Chaucer.
• SECRENESS
  Secrecy; privacy. Chaucer.
• APPOINTMENT
  The exercise of the power of designating (under a "power of appointment") a person to enjoy an estate or other specific property; also, the instrument by which the designation is made. 6. Equipment, furniture, as for a ship or an army; whatever
• COURTBRED
  Bred, or educated, at court; polished; courtly.
• APPOINTOR
  The person who selects the appointee. See Appointee, 2.
• COURTESANSHIP
  Harlotry.
• COURT-MARTIAL
  A court consisting of military or naval officers, for the trial of one belonging to the army or navy, or of offenses against military or naval law.
• APPOINTIVE
  Subject to appointment; as, an appointive office.
• ORDERLY
  1. Conformed to order; in order; regular; as, an orderly course or plan. Milton. 2. Observant of order, authority, or rule; hence, obedient; quiet; peaceable; not unruly; as, orderly children; an orderly community. 3. Performed in good
• APPOINT
  To direct, designate, or limit; to make or direct a new disposition of, by virtue of a power contained in a conveyance; -- said of an estate already conveyed. Burrill. Kent. To appoint one's self, to resolve. Crowley. (more info) prepare,
• COURTLIKE
  After the manner of a court; elegant; polite; courtly.
• UNDERSECRETARY
  A secretary who is subordinate to the chief secretary; an assistant secretary; as, an undersecretary of the Treasury.
• FORSWORNNESS
  State of being forsworn.
• IMBORDER
  To furnish or inclose with a border; to form a border of. Milton.
• MISORDER
  To order ill; to manage erroneously; to conduct badly. Shak.
• REAPPOINT
  To appoint again.
• ACCORDER
  One who accords, assents, or concedes.
• PREAPPOINTMENT
  Previous appointment.
• OUTCOURT
  An outer or exterior court. The skirts and outcourts of heaven. South.