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[valis2]

From my awesome late 1800's thesaurus:

Concealment. (I was thinking of Occlumency, of course, which is what led to this.)

N. concealment; hiding; occultation, mystification.

seal of secrecy; screen; disguise; masquerade; masked battery; hiding place; cipher; palimpsest; freemasonry.

stealth, stealthiness, obreption, slyness &c. (cunning).

latitancy, seclusion, secrecy.

reticence; reserve; arrière pensée, suppression, evasion, white lie, misprision; silence.

latency; snake in the grass.

V. conceal, hide, secrete, stow away, put out of sight.

cover, screen, cloak, veil, shroud; draw the veil; eclipse; mask; disguise; ensconce, muffle, smother; whisper.

keep snug, keep dark; bury; sink, suppress; stifle, withhold, reserve; fence with a question.

keep one's own counsel; hold one's tongue; make no sign; not breathe a word; not let the right hand know what the left is doing; hide one's light under a bushel, bury one's talent in a napkin.

keep in the dark; blind the eyes.

be concealed; suffer an eclipse; lie perdu; lurk, sneak, skulk, slink, pussyfoot, prowl; steal along; play at bopeep; hide in holes and corners.

Adj. concealed; hidden; veiled; secret, recondite, mystic, cabalistic, occult, dark; cryptic; private, privy, in petto, auricular, clandestine, close, inviolate.

behind a screen; under an eclipse; in a mist; clouded, wrapt in clouds; buried; secluded.

irrevealable, inviolable; confidential; esoteric; not to be spoken of.

obreptitious, furtive, stealthy, feline; skulking; surreptitious, underhand, hole and corner; sly; secretive, evasive, noncommittal, reserved, reticent, uncommunicative, buttoned up; close as wax; taciturn. (Who can't help but think of Snape with this set?)

Adv. secretly; in one's sleeve, in holes and corners; in the dark.

januis clausis, with closed doors, à huis clos; hugger-mugger, à la derobée; under the rose; sub rosâ, en tapinois, in the background, aside, on the sly, with bated breath, sotto voce, in a whisper, without beat of drum, à la sourdine.

Phr. it must go no further; 'tell it not in Gath,' nobody the wiser.



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Comments

[rexluscus.livejournal.com]

Oh, neat! *bookmarks thesaurus* Webster's thesaurus is so...vanilla and boring.

I love that 'freemasonry' is included as synonymous to 'concealment.' :)

[valis2.livejournal.com]

I adore this thesaurus. It rocks! I mean, seriously, bury one's talent in a napkin? Rocks.

;) Hhaha! Cute turkey!

[rexluscus.livejournal.com]

Yeah, Busaikko prevailed on me to hold off on the santa hat for a few more weeks and go with a turkey instead. Originally, the turkey was supposed to go on my little one-eyed person's HEAD, but the top of the turkey wasn't visible that way and you couldn't really tell it was a turkey. :)

[valis2.livejournal.com]

I should find a concrete turkey for my lion statue. ha!

[innerslytherin]

Ooh, I love it! I could spend hours reading a normal thesaurus, let alone an old one. Neat!

[valis2.livejournal.com]

I have a fab dictionary, too, from 1914, and this terrific cracky book called Good Cheer blah blah blah, which is a manual for kids, and contains a lot of hilarious stuff about physical fitness and etiquette and poetry. I adore it all.

I try not to put together too many entries about them because I don't want to bore the rest of the flist to tears. ;)

[innerslytherin]

*grin* I love this new tracking feature on LJ, because I can track anything you tag "thesaurus" now. I won't be bored! ^__^

[valis2.livejournal.com]

Wow, that really is a cool feature!

And you're inspiring me to do a dictionary entry this week. Woohoo!

[celisnebula.livejournal.com]

Ooohhh ... want to pet pretty thesaurus!

I've about 18 books from a set of 1903 Encyclopedias that I'd adore simply because of the mythology section.

[valis2.livejournal.com]

Oh, I found this fantastic volume of a turn of the century encyclopedia, and I adored it. julian_black has it now, and she was just as interested. I love reading their fascinating entries!