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secrete

adj
/sɪˈkɹiːt/

Etymology

First directly attested in 1728; attested as the past-participial adjective secreted in 1707: from Latin sēcrētus, perfect passive participle of sēcernō (“to separate”); reinforced by back-formation from secretion; compare secern; cognate with French sécréter and the Spanish secretar.

  1. derived from sēcrētus

Definitions

  1. Separated.

  2. To extract a substance from blood, sap, or similar to produce and emit waste for…

    To extract a substance from blood, sap, or similar to produce and emit waste for excretion or for the fulfilling of a physiological function.

    • Why one set of cells should secrete bile, another urea, and so on, we do not know.
    • Many tumors secrete two or more different hormones.

  3. To exude or yield.

    • 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.
  4. ›+ 2 more definitions

    1. To conceal.

      • 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.
      • 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.

    2. Archaic form of secret.

      • a secrete breach, a secrete bed (Spenser)
      • […] is GOD euerlasting, is this a secrete and hidden thing manifested in the fleshe?
      • Ambitian [...] is a secrete poyson, a hidden sinne […]

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at secrete. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at secrete. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at secrete

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

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