secretist

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   A dealer in secrets or arcana.

   • Boyle condemned "the avarice" of those "secretists" who secured profit through the practice of intellectual privacy .
   • Laboratories were to be contrasted with the private shrines of "secretist” philosophers and Hermetics whom Boyle criticized for their refusal to communicate in public.
2. 2

   A secretive person

   A secretive person; a keeper of secrets.

   • An exhibitionist rather than a secretist, Crowley published much material that was previously hidden from the public.
   • When the slave-girl heard these words she said, "O my lord, indeed a secret is not lost whereof thou art the secretist; nor shall any affair come to naught for which thou strivest.
3. 3

   A member of a secret society or a known society with secret ceremonies.

   • No oathbound secretist is free to obey God, or church, or State; he must obey the behest of an irresponsible society, or as it may prove to be, a band of infamous conspirators.
   • The resolution was adopted with little difficulty, and all communion with secretists and all reception of secret society members ceased .
   • In the previous discussion of secrecy, we distilled many of the variants of secretist practice and the social formations linked to them .

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