secretan.1
/sɪˈkriːtə/ Ecclesiastical.
= secret n. 2.
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society > faith > worship > parts of service > prayer said in low voice > [noun]
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society > faith > worship > prayer > kinds of prayer > [noun] > secret
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1737 R. Challoner Catholick Christian Instructed vii. 95 The Prayers called the Secreta, which correspond to the Collects of the Day, and are different every Day.
1859 J. M. Neale Liturgies St. Mark p. xxvi (note) While the secreta is being said.
1899 Lutheran (Philadelphia) 6 Apr. 325 The prolonged secretae of the priests.
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secretan.2
With plural agreement. Secreted matters; the products of secretion. Cf. excreta n.
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the world > life > the body > secretory organs > secretion > [noun]
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1877 Chambers in Encycl. Brit. VII. 209/2 The actual amount of those elements in the dried solids of the secreta.
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