† secreˈtarian, a. Obs. rare.
[f. med.L. sēcrētāri-us secretary + -an.]
= prec.
| a 1734 North Exam. i. ii. §5 (1740) 33 We may observe in his Book in most Years, a Catalogue of Preferments, with Dates and Remarks, which latter, by the Secretarian Touches, shew out of what Shop he had them. Ibid. i. iii. §37. 144 These false Glosses built upon certain Secretarian Expressions in Coleman's Letters. 1801 Southey Lett. (1856) I. 175, I do not receive livery and seisin of the secretarian pen till we reach London. |