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Secrete
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- 1 Separated. not-comparable, obsolete, rare
"[…] they ſuppoſing Two other Divine Hypoſtaſes Superiour thereunto, which were perfectly Secrete from Matter. […] This ſo containeth all things, as not being yet ſecrete and diſtinct; whereas in the Second they are diſcerned and diſtinguiſhed by Reaſon; that is, they are Actually diſtinguiſhed in their Ideas; whereas the Firſt is the Simple and Fecund Power of all things."
- 2 Archaic form of secret. alt-of, archaic
"a secrete breach, a secrete bed (Spenser)"
- 1 To extract a substance from blood, sap, or similar to produce and emit waste for excretion or for the fulfilling of a physiological function. transitive, usually
"Why one set of cells should secrete bile, another urea, and so on, we do not know."
- 2 To conceal. transitive
"With those words the passenger opened the coach-door and got in; not at all assisted by his fellow-passengers, who had expeditiously secreted their watches and purses in their boots, and were now making a general pretence of being asleep."
- 3 generate and separate from cells or bodily fluids wordnet
- 4 To exude or yield. figuratively, transitive
"If you won’t believe my great new doctrine (which, by the bye, is as old as the Greeks), that souls secrete their bodies, as snails do shells, you will remain in outer darkness."
- 5 place out of sight; keep secret wordnet
Etymology
First attested in 1678: from Latin sēcrētus (“[having been] separated”).
First directly attested in 1728; attested as the past-participial adjective secreted in 1707: from Latin sēcrētus, perfect passive participle of sēcernō (“I separate”); reinforced by back-formation from secretion; compare secern; cognate with French sécréter and the Spanish secretar.
Alteration of secret.
Alteration of secret.
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