Meaning of secretist | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A dealer in secrets or arcana.
   obsolete
2. A secretive person; a keeper of secrets.
3. A member of a secret society or a known society with secret ceremonies.

Examples

“Boyle condemned "the avarice" of those "secretists" who secured profit through the practice of intellectual privacy .”

“Laboratories were to be contrasted with the private shrines of "secretist” philosophers and Hermetics whom Boyle criticized for their refusal to communicate in public.”

“They reinforce their linkage of the Royal Society's program with Restoration social order by heaping together as ther opposite "the knowledge claims of alchemical 'secretists' and of sectarian ' enthusiasts ' who claimed individual and unmediated inspiration from God , or whose solitary treading [ sic ] of the Book of Nature produced unverifiable observational testimony .”

“The thirteenth century Zohar, a Jewish mystical text, announced its value in secretist terms, featuring as its main sections "The Secret Midrash,” Midrash ha-Neelam, and “Secrets of the Torah” Sitre Torah.”

“An exhibitionist rather than a secretist, Crowley published much material that was previously hidden from the public.”

“The monarch frames his defense with a definition of a good prince as categorically without private interests: "for Kings being publike persons, by reason of the office and authority, are as it were set (as it was said of old) upon a publike stage, in the sight of all the people, where all the beholders eyes are attentively bent to look and pry in the last circumstance of their secretist drifts."”

“When the slave-girl heard these words she said, "O my lord, indeed a secret is not lost whereof thou art the secretist; nor shall any affair come to naught for which thou strivest.”

“In the old days the secretist party would have regarded this publication as a policy which led the nation in the direct line of "losing the war".”

“No oathbound secretist is free to obey God, or church, or State; he must obey the behest of an irresponsible society, or as it may prove to be, a band of infamous conspirators.”

“The resolution was adopted with little difficulty, and all communion with secretists and all reception of secret society members ceased .”

“In the previous discussion of secrecy, we distilled many of the variants of secretist practice and the social formations linked to them .”

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