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secrete
English
Pronunciation
- enPR: s?kr?t?, IPA(key): /s??k?i?t/
- Rhymes: -i?t
Etymology 1
First attested in 1678: from Latin s?cr?tus (“[having been] separated”).
Adjective
secrete (not comparable)
- (obsolete, rare) separated
- 1678: Ralph Cudworth, The True Intellectual System of the Universe, book 1, chapter 4, pages 307 and 582:
- […] they ?uppo?ing Two other Divine Hypo?ta?es Superiour thereunto, which were perfectly Secrete from Matter.
- […]
- This ?o containeth all things, as not being yet ?ecrete and di?tinct; whereas in the Second they are di?cerned and di?tingui?hed by Rea?on; that is, they are Actually di?tingui?hed in their Ideas; whereas the Fir?t is the Simple and Fecund Power of all things.
- 1678: Ralph Cudworth, The True Intellectual System of the Universe, book 1, chapter 4, pages 307 and 582:
Etymology 2
First directly attested in 1728; attested as the past-participial adjective secreted in 1707: from Latin s?cr?tus, perfect passive participle of s?cern? (“I separate”); reinforced by back-formation from secretion; compare secern; cognate with the French sécréter and the Spanish secretar.
Verb
secrete (third-person singular simple present secretes, present participle secreting, simple past and past participle secreted)
- (physiology, transitive, of organs, glands, etc.) To extract a substance from blood, sap, or similar to produce and emit waste for excretion or for the fulfilling of a physiological function.
- 1842, William Benjamin Carpenter, Principles of Human Physiology
- Why one set of cells should secrete bile, another urea, and so on, we do not know.
- 2008, Stephen J. McPhee, Maxine A. Papadakis, et al., Current Medical Diagnosis and Treatment, McGraw-Hill Medical, page 1202:
- Many tumors secrete two or more different hormones.
- 1842, William Benjamin Carpenter, Principles of Human Physiology
- (transitive, figuratively) To exude or yield.
- 1863: Charles Kingsley (author), Frances Elizabeth Kingsley (editor), Charles Kingsley, his Letters and Memories of his Life (first published posthumously in 1877), page 156 (8th edition: 1880)
- 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.
- 1887: James Russell Lowell, Democracy and Other Addresses, page 15 (1892 reprint)
- Let me not be misunderstood. I see as clearly as any man possibly can, and rate as highly, the value of wealth, and of hereditary wealth, as the security of refinement, the feeder of all those arts that ennoble and beautify life, and as making a country worth living in. Many an ancestral hall here in England has been a nursery of that culture which has been of example and benefit to all. Old gold has a civilizing virtue which new gold must grow old to be capable of secreting.
- 1863: Charles Kingsley (author), Frances Elizabeth Kingsley (editor), Charles Kingsley, his Letters and Memories of his Life (first published posthumously in 1877), page 156 (8th edition: 1880)
Translations
Etymology 3
Alteration of verb sense of secret
Verb
secrete (third-person singular simple present secretes, present participle secreting, simple past and past participle secreted)
- (transitive) To conceal.
- 1914: The Pacific Reporter, volume 142, page 450 (West Publishing Company)
- Plaintiffs filed an affidavit for an attachment, alleging that defendant was about to assign, secrete, and dispose of his property with intent to delay and defraud his creditors, and was about to convert his property into money to place it beyond the reach of his creditors.
- 1997: Chris Horrocks, Introducing Foucault, page 43 (Totem Books, Icon Books; ?ISBN
- Whereas the Renaissance had allowed madness into the light, the classical age saw it as scandal or shame. Families secreted mad uncles and strange cousins in asylums.
- 1914: The Pacific Reporter, volume 142, page 450 (West Publishing Company)
Usage notes
- The present participle and past forms secreting and secreted are heteronymous with the corresponding forms of the similar verb secret, and this can create ambiguity when the word is encountered in print.
Translations
References
- “†se?crete, a.” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary, second edition (1989) (adjective)
- OED (second edition), “secrete, v.” (verb and figurative senses)
Anagrams
- Treeces
Italian
Adjective
secrete
- feminine plural of secreto
Verb
secrete
- feminine plural of secreto
Anagrams
- cretese, escrete
Latin
Etymology 1
From the perfect passive participle s?cr?tus (“sundered, secluded, hidden”) +? -?.
Alternative forms
- s?cr?t?
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /se??kre?.te?/, [s?e??k?e?t?e?]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /se?kre.te/, [s??k???t??]
Adverb
s?cr?t? (comparative s?cr?tius, superlative s?cr?tissim?)
- secretly, in secret, privately
Etymology 2
Inflection of perfect passive participle of s?cern? (“separate; part; reject”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /se??kre?.te/, [s?e??k?e?t??]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /se?kre.te/, [s??k???t??]
Participle
s?cr?te
- vocative masculine singular of s?cr?tus
References
- secrete in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- secrete in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700?[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
Portuguese
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /se?.k??.t(?)i/
- Hyphenation: se?cre?te
- Rhymes: -?t(?)i
Verb
secrete
- first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of secretar
- third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of secretar
- third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of secretar
- third-person singular (você) negative imperative of secretar
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /se?k?ete/, [se?k?e.t?e]
Verb
secrete
- Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of secretar.
- First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of secretar.
- Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of secretar.
- Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of secretar.
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dissemble
English
Etymology
From Latin dissimulare.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [d??s?mb??]
Verb
dissemble (third-person singular simple present dissembles, present participle dissembling, simple past and past participle dissembled)
- (transitive) To disguise or conceal something.
- 1788, John Philip Kemble, The Panel
- Perhaps it was right to dissemble your love.
- 1788, John Philip Kemble, The Panel
- (transitive) To feign.
- 1681, John Dryden, Absalom and Achitophel
- And like a lion, slumb'ring in the way,
- Or sleep-dissembling, while he waits his prey.
- May 16, 1710, Isaac Bickerstaff (pseudonym for Richard Steele or (in some later numbers of the journal) Joseph Addison), The Tatler No. 172
- He soon dissembled a sleep.
- 1681, John Dryden, Absalom and Achitophel
- (transitive) To deliberately ignore something; to pretend not to notice.
- (intransitive) To falsely hide one's opinions or feelings.
- XVII century, John Dryden, Cymon And Iphigenia; from Boccace
- While to his arms the blushing bride he took,
- To seeming sadness she composed her look;
- As if by force subjected to his will,
- Though pleased, dissembling, and a woman still.
- XVII century, John Dryden, Cymon And Iphigenia; from Boccace
Usage notes
Not to be confused with disassemble (take apart).
Synonyms
- (to pretend not to notice): disregard, take no notice of; see also Thesaurus:ignore
Translations
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