单词 | to keep secret |
释义 | > as lemmasto keep secret a. Predicatively (esp. in to keep secret): Kept from public knowledge, or from the knowledge of persons specified; not allowed to be known, or only by selected persons. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > secrecy, concealment > [adjective] dernc897 dighela1000 hid?c1225 stillc1275 stillyc1275 covertc1303 secrec1374 secret1399 secretivec1470 covered1484 dark1532 underhid1532 hiddena1547 concealed1558 abstruse1576 unshewing1598 mystical1600 of secreta1616 mystica1625 subterraneous1652 researched1653 hugger-mugger1692 hidlingsa1810 sub rosa1824 cachet1837 cloak and dagger1841 theftuous1881 q.t.1910 closet1966 down-low1991 the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > keeping from knowledge > keep quiet about [phrase] to keep or hold (a matter) counsel (later in counsela1400 to keep secret1399 to keep (something) dark1532 to draw a veil over1582 not to tell one's shirt1586 to keep one's (own) counsel1604 to put (also keep) in one's pocketa1616 to name no names1692 to make a secret of1738 to keep (‥) snug1778 to clap, put, or keep the thumb on1825 to wash one's dirty linen at home, in public1867 to hold back1956 to sweep (also brush, kick, etc.) (something) under the rug1956 to get it off one's chest1961 to sweep (or push) (something) under the carpet1963 1399 W. Langland Richard Redeles Prol. 61 Lete ȝoure conceill corette it [sc. this treatise]..ffor ȝit it is secrette. 1474 [see sense A. 2a]. 1481 in Eng. Gilds (1870) 317 Ye shal not dyscouer þe counsell of þe bretherynhod or of þe crafte, þt ye have knowlych of, þt shold be sekret wtyn ouer-selfe. 1485 W. Caxton tr. Paris & Vienne (1957) 3 Parys kept hys loue secrete. 1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. lxxij I kept nothing secret from your Ambassadours. 1600 E. Blount tr. G. F. di Conestaggio Hist. Uniting Portugall to Castill 47 The Renegados..kept his death secret. 1799 R. Sickelmore Agnes & Leonora II. 164 It was as much to their interest as my own to keep the affair secret. 1831 W. Scott Count Robert iii, in Tales of my Landlord 4th Ser. III. 61 The task in which he was engaged was to be kept most strictly secret. 1879 ‘E. Lyall’ Won by Waiting xxx Bertha's flight must be kept secret. < as lemmas |
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