Word Meanings - SECRETLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database
In a secret manner.
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- ASIDE
1. On, or to, one side; out of a straight line, course, or direction; at a little distance from the rest; out of the way; apart. Thou shalt set aside that which is full. 2 Kings iv. 4. But soft! but soft! aside: here comes the king. Shak. - 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. - APARTMENT HOUSE
A building comprising a number of suites designed for separate housekeeping tenements, but having conveniences, such as heat, light, elevator service, etc., furnished in common; -- often distinguished in the United States from a flat house. - APARTNESS
The quality of standing apart. - SECRETNESS
1. The state or quality of being secret, hid, or concealed. 2. Secretiveness; concealment. Donne. - ASUNDER
Apart; separate from each other; into parts; in two; separately; into or in different pieces or places. I took my staff, even Beauty, and cut it asunder. Zech. xi. 10. As wide asunder as pole and pole. Froude. - APARTMENT
appartare to separate, set apart; all fr. L. ad + pars, partis, part. 1. A room in a building; a division in a house, separated from others by partitions. Fielding. 2. A set or suite of rooms. De Quincey. 3. A compartment. Pope. - SECRETORY
Secreting; performing, or connected with, the office secretion; secernent; as, secretory vessels, nerves. -- n. - ALOOF
See ALEWIFE - SECRETARIAT; SECRETARIATE
The office of a secretary; the place where a secretary transacts business, keeps records, etc. - SEPARATE
pfref. se- aside + parare to make ready, prepare. See Parade, and cf. 1. To disunite; to divide; to disconnect; to sever; to part in any manner. From the fine gold I separate the alloy. Dryden. Separate thyself, I pray thee, from me. Gen. xiii. - PRIVATELY
1. In a private manner; not openly; without the presence of others. 2. In a manner affecting an individual; personally not officially; as, he is not privately benefited. - 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. - ALOOFNESS
State of being aloof. Rogers . The . . . aloofness of his dim forest life. Thoreau. - 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. - UNDERSECRETARY
A secretary who is subordinate to the chief secretary; an assistant secretary; as, an undersecretary of the Treasury. - INSEPARATE
Not separate; together; united. Shak. - SEASIDE
The land bordering on, or adjacent to, the sea; the seashore. Also used adjectively. - 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. - BONAPARTISM
The policy of Bonaparte or of the Bonapartes.