Whereas the Renaissance had allowed madness into the light, the classical age saw it as scandal or shame. Families secreted mad uncles and strange cousins in asylums.
Many tumors secrete two or more different hormones.
The royal jewels were secreted away in the middle of the night, sub rosa.
Let me not be misunderstood. I see as clearly as any man possibly can, and rate as highly, the value of wealth, and of hereditary wealth, as the security of refinement, the feeder of all those arts that ennoble and beautify life, and as making a country worth living in. Many an ancestral hall here in England has been a nursery of that culture which has been of example and benefit to all. Old gold has a civilizing virtue which new gold must grow old to be capable of secreting.
{2} This ſo containeth all things, as not being yet ſecrete and diſtinct ; whereas in the Second they are diſcerned and diſtinguiſhed by Reaſon ; that is, they are Actually diſtinguiſhed in their Ideas ; whereas the Firſt is the Simple and Fecund Power of all things.