SECONDER
SEC'ONDER, noun One that supported what another attempts, or what he affirms, or hat he moves or proposes; as the seconder of an enterprise or of a motion.
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American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.
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SECONDLY
SEC'ONDLY, adv. In the second place.
SECRECY
SE'CRECY, noun. [from secret.]1. Properly, a state of separation; hence, concealment from the observation of others, or from the notice of any persons not concerned; privacy; a ...
SECRET
SE'CRET, adjective. [Latin secretus. This is given as the participle of secerno, but is radically a different word. The radical sense of seg is to separate, as in Latin seco, to...
SECRETARISHIP
SEC'RETARISHIP, noun. The office of a secretary.
SECRETARY
SEC'RETARY, noun. [Latin secretus, secret; originally a confident, one entrusted with secrets.]1. A person employed by a public body, by a company or by an individual, to write ...
SECRETE
SECRE'TE, verb transitive1. To hide; to conceal; to remove from observation or the knowledge of others; as to secrete stolen goods.2. To secrete one's self; to retire from notic...
SECRETED
SECRE'TED, pp. Concealed; secerned.
SECRETING
SECRE'TING, ppr. Hiding; secerning.
SECRETION
SECRE'TION, noun.1. The act of secerning; the act of the producing from the blood substances different from the blood itself, or from any of its constituents, as bile, saliva, m...
SECRETIST
SE'CRETIST, noun. A dealer in secrets. [Not in use.]
SECRETITIOUS
SECRETI'TIOUS, adjective. Parted by an animal in secretion.
SECRETLY
SE'CRETLY, adv.1. Privately; privily; not openly; without the knowledge of others; as, to dispatch a messenger secretly.2. Inwardly; not apparently or visibly; latently.Now secr...
SECRETNESS
SE'CRETNESS, noun.1. The state of being hid or concealed.2. The quality of keeping a secret.
SECT
SECT, noun. [Latin Sp. secta; from Latin seco, to cut off, to separate.]1. A body or number of persons united in tenets, chiefly in philosophy or religion, but constituting a di...
SECTARIAN
SECTA'RIAN, adjective. [Latin secrarius.] Pertaining to a sect or sects; as sectarian principles or prejudices.SECT'ARIAN, noun. One of a sect; one of a party in religion which ...
SECTARIANISM
SECTA'RIANISM, noun. The disposition to dissent from the established church or predominant religion, and to form new sects.
SECTARISM
SECT'ARISM, noun. Sectarianism. [Little used.]
SECTARIST
SECT'ARIST, noun. A secretary. [Not much used.]
SECTARY
SECT'ARY, noun.1. A person who separates from an established church, or from the prevailing denomination of christians; one that belongs to a sect; a dissenter.2. a follower; a ...
SECTATOR
SECTA'TOR, noun. A follower; a disciple; an adherent to a sect. [Not now used.]
SECTILE
SECT'ILE, adjective. [Latin sectilus, from seco, to cut.] A sectile mineral is one that is midway between the briddle and the malleable, as soapstone and plumbago.
SECTION
SEC'TION, noun [L. sectio; seco, to cut off.]1. The act of cutting or of separating by cutting; as the section of the bodies.2. A part separated from the rest; a division.3. In ...
SECTIONAL
SEC'TIONAL, adjective Pertaining to a section or distinct part of a larger body or territory.
SECTOR
SECT'OR, noun [L. seco, to cut.]1. In geometry, a part of a circle comprehended between two radii and the arch; or a mixed triangle, formed by two radii and the arch of a circle...
SECULAR
SEC'ULAR, adjective. [Latin secularis, from seculum, the world or an age.]1. Pertaining to the present world, or to things not spiritual or holy; relating to things not immediat...
SECULARITY
SECULAR'ITY, noun. Worldiness; supreme attention to the things of the present life.