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- English Word Secrete Definition To separate from the blood and elaborate by the process of secretion; to elaborate and emit as a secretion. See Secretion.
- English Word Secrete-metory Definition Causing secretion; -- said of nerves which go to glands and influence secretion.
- English Word Secreted Definition of Secrete
- English Word Secreting Definition of Secrete
- English Word Secretion Definition The act of secreting or concealing; as, the secretion of dutiable goods.
- English Word Secretion Definition The act of secreting; the process by which material is separated from the blood through the agency of the cells of the various glands and elaborated by the cells into new substances so as to form the various secretions, as the saliva, bile, and other digestive fluids. The process varies in the different glands, and hence are formed the various secretions.
- English Word Secretion Definition Any substance or fluid secreted, or elaborated and emitted, as the gastric juice.
- English Word Secretist Definition A dealer in secrets.
- English Word Secretitious Definition Parted by animal secretion; as, secretitious humors.
- English Word Secretive Definition Tending to secrete, or to keep secret or private; as, a secretive disposition.
- English Word Secretiveness Definition The quality of being secretive; disposition or tendency to conceal.
- English Word Secretiveness Definition The faculty or propensity which impels to reserve, secrecy, or concealment.
- English Word Secretly Definition In a secret manner.
- English Word Secretness Definition The state or quality of being secret, hid, or concealed.
- English Word Secretness Definition Secretiveness; concealment.
- English Word Secretory Definition Secreting; performing, or connected with, the office secretion; secernent; as, secretory vessels, nerves.
- English Word Secretory Definition A secretory vessel; a secernent.
- English Word Sect Definition A cutting; a scion.
- English Word Sect Definition Those following a particular leader or authority, or attached to a certain opinion; a company or set having a common belief or allegiance distinct from others; in religion, the believers in a particular creed, or upholders of a particular practice; especially, in modern times, a party dissenting from an established church; a denomination; in philosophy, the disciples of a particular master; a school; in society and the state, an order, rank, class, or party.
- English Word Sectant Definition One of the portions of space bounded by the three coordinate planes. Specif. (Crystallog.), one of the parts of a crystal into which it is divided by the axial planes.
- English Word Sectarian Definition Pertaining to a sect, or to sects; peculiar to a sect; bigotedly attached to the tenets and interests of a denomination; as, sectarian principles or prejudices.
- English Word Sectarian Definition One of a sect; a member or adherent of a special school, denomination, or religious or philosophical party; one of a party in religion which has separated itself from established church, or which holds tenets different from those of the prevailing denomination in a state.
- English Word Sectarianism Definition The quality or character of a sectarian; devotion to the interests of a party; excess of partisan or denominational zeal; adherence to a separate church organization.
- English Word Sectarianize Definition To imbue with sectarian feelings; to subject to the control of a sect.
- English Word Sectaries Definition of Sectary
- English Word Sectarism Definition Sectarianism.
- English Word Sectarist Definition A sectary.
- English Word Sectary Definition A sectarian; a member or adherent of a sect; a follower or disciple of some particular teacher in philosophy or religion; one who separates from an established church; a dissenter.
- English Word Sectator Definition A follower; a disciple; an adherent to a sect.
- English Word Sectile Definition Capable of being cut; specifically (Min.), capable of being severed by the knife with a smooth cut; -- said of minerals.