Secret vs Magic - What's the difference?
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(countable, uncountable) Knowledge that is hidden and intended to be kept hidden.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-14, author=(Jonathan Freedland)
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(uncountable) Something not understood or known.
* Milton
(archaic, in the plural) The genital organs.
Being or kept hidden.
* Bible, Deuteronomy xxix. 29
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
, title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=1 (obsolete) Withdrawn from general intercourse or notice; in retirement or secrecy; secluded.
* Fenton
(obsolete) Faithful to a secret; not inclined to divulge or betray confidence; secretive.
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) Separate; distinct.
* Cudworth
To make or keep secret.
* 1984 , Peter Scott Lawrence,
* 1986 ,
* 1994 , Phyllis Granoff & Koichi Shinohara,
Tagged as ''obsolete''. Notes: “In the inflected forms it is not easy to distinguish between ?''secret'' and [http://dictionary.oed.com/cgi/entry/50218071 secrete ''v. ” * “
'''Se"cret (?), v. t. To keep secret. [Obs. ''Bacon . The use of rituals or actions, especially based on supernatural or occult knowledge, to manipulate or obtain information about the natural world, especially when seen as falling outside the realm of religion; also the forces allegedly drawn on for such practices.
*c. 1489 , (William Caxton), Foure Sonnes of Aymon :
*:And whan he shall be arrayed as I telle you / lete hym thenne doo his incantacyons & his magyke as he wyll […].
*1781 , (Edward Gibbon), Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire , II.23:
*:The arts of magic and divination were strictly prohibited.
*1971 , , Religion and the Decline of Magic , Folio Society 2012, p. 23:
*:Conversions to the new religion […] have frequently been assisted by the view of converts that they are acquiring not just a means of otherworldly salvation, but a new and more powerful magic .
A specific ritual or procedure associated with supernatural magic or with mysticism; a spell.
Something producing remarkable results, especially when not fully understood; an enchanting quality; exceptional skill.
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
, title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=1 A conjuring trick or illusion performed to give the appearance of supernatural phenomena or powers.
Having supernatural talents, properties or qualities attributed to magic.
Producing extraordinary results, as though through the use of magic; wonderful, amazing.
Pertaining to conjuring tricks or illusions performed for entertainment etc.
(colloquial) Great; excellent.
(physics) Describing the number of nucleons in a particularly stable isotopic nucleus; 2, 8, 20, 28, 50, 82, 126, and 184.
To produce, transform (something), (as if) by magic.
As a noun secret
is (countable|uncountable) knowledge that is hidden and intended to be kept hidden.As an adjective secret
is being or kept hidden.As a verb secret
is to make or keep secret.As a proper noun magic is
the decrypted japanese messages produced by us cryptographers in and prior to world war ii.secret
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Noun
Obama's once hip brand is now tainted, passage=Now we are liberal with our innermost secrets , spraying them into the public ether with a generosity our forebears could not have imagined. Where we once sent love letters in a sealed envelope, or stuck photographs of our children in a family album, now such private material is despatched to servers and clouds operated by people we don't know and will never meet.}}
- To tell our secrets is often folly; to communicate those of others is treachery.
- All secrets of the deep, all nature's works.
Synonyms
* (l)Derived terms
* family secret * in secret * keep secret * open secret * Oxford secret * secretist * state secret * top secret * trade secret * Victoria's SecretAdjective
(en adjective)- The secret things belong unto the Lord our God; but those things which are revealed belong unto us.
citation, passage=The original family who had begun to build a palace to rival Nonesuch had died out before they had put up little more than the gateway, so that the actual structure which had come down to posterity retained the secret magic of a promise rather than the overpowering splendour of a great architectural achievement.}}
- secret in her sapphire cell
- Secret Romans, that have spoke the word, / And will not palter.
- They suppose two other divine hypostases superior thereunto, which were perfectly secret from matter.
Alternative forms
* secrette (obsolete)Synonyms
* private * dern * confidential * concealedAntonyms
* overtDerived terms
* secret admirer * secret agent * secret ballot * secret code * secret partner * secret police * * secret Santa * secret service * secret society * secret writing * secretive * secretly * secretness * unsecretVerb
Around the mulberry tree, Firefly Books, p. 26
- [...] she would unfold the silk, press it with a smooth wooden block that she'd heated in the oven, and then once more secret it away.
InfoWorld, InfoWorld Media Group, Inc.
- Diskless workstations [...] make it difficult for individuals to copy information [...] onto a diskette and secret it away.
Monks and magicians: religious biographies in Asia, Mosaic Press, p. 50
- To prevent the elixir from reaching mankind and thereby upsetting the balance of the universe, two gods secret it away.
Usage notes
* All other dictionaries label this sense 'obsolete', but the citations above and on the citations page demonstrate recent usage as part of the idiom "secret [something] away". * The present participle and past forms secreting and secreted are liable to confusion with the corresponding heteronymous forms of the similar verb secrete.Quotations
*Derived terms
* secreteReferences
* “†?secret, v.'']” listed in the '''' [2nd Ed.; 1989]
Tagged as ''obsolete''. Notes: “In the inflected forms it is not easy to distinguish between ?''secret'' and [http://dictionary.oed.com/cgi/entry/50218071 secrete ''v. ” * “
Se"cret' (?), v. t.]” listed on [http://machaut.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/WEBSTER.page.sh?page=1301 page 1,301]of '''' (1913)
'''Se"cret (?), v. t. To keep secret. [Obs. ''Bacon .
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Alternative forms
* magick (qualifier) Used as a deliberate archaism; used for supernatural magic, as distinguished from stage magic. * magicke (obsolete) * magique (obsolete)Noun
(en-noun)citation, passage=The original family who had begun to build a palace to rival Nonesuch had died out before they had put up little more than the gateway, so that the actual structure which had come down to posterity retained the secret magic of a promise rather than the overpowering splendour of a great architectural achievement.}}
Synonyms
* (allegedly supernatural method to dominate natural forces) dwimmer, thaumaturgy, conjuring, sorcery, witchcraft, dweomercraft/dwimmercraft * (illusion performed to give the appearance of magic or the supernatural) sleight of hand, illusionism, legerdemain, dwimmerAdjective
(-)- a magic''' wand; a '''magic dragon
- a magic moment
- a magic''' show; a '''magic trick
- — I cleaned up the flat while you were out. — Really? Magic !