† secessiveadj.
Obsolete.
Retired, private.
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society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > retirement or seclusion > secluded place or place of seclusion > [adjective]
secrec1374
blindc1386
privatea1513
secret?a1513
shadowy1555
close1571
retired1593
retrait1603
sequestrate1632
recessful1646
recluse1650
reserved1653
secessive1653
coy1670
sequestrated1726
slya1764
secluded1798
shy1841
retiracied1856
undisprivacied1870
madding1874
1653 T. Urquhart tr. F. Rabelais 1st Bk. Wks. xl. 180 Like dung-chewers and excrementitious eaters, they are cast into the privies and secessive places, that is the Covents and Abbeys.
1693 T. Urquhart & P. A. Motteux tr. F. Rabelais 3rd Bk. Wks. viii. 71 Conserved, and put in store, as in a Secessive Repository, and Sacred Warehouse.
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adj.1653- to grate off
- to grate on or upon
- to grave away
- to grave peat(s
- to grave turf
- to graze the shins of
- to graze up
- to grease a person in the hands
- to grease a person's hand
- to grease a person's palm
- to grease hand
- to grease in the hands
- to grease palm
- to grease the fat pig
- to grease the fat sow
- to grease the fist
- to grease the fist or in the fist
- to grease the fist or one in the fist
- to grease the palm
- to grease the wheels
- to great effect
- to great purpose
- to grecianize it
- to greek it
- to greet a person fair, friendly, well