Citations:secretting

English citations of secretting

• 1706–1710: Presidency of the East India Company in Madras, Records of Fort St. George, volumes 14–15 of Despatches from England: 1670– (published 1927), page 98 (Government Press)

  By the said Inventory we also found who were the great Traders in dyamonds. We only hint this at present expecting that as we give a fair Liberty to all to gett their Estates honestly in our service They will not do any thing to our Prejudice by secretting the Dyamonds they shall provide for Europe in our own ships or sending them in any others.

• 1736: Mark Anthony Mills, Esq. (editor), The Ancient Ordinances and Statute Laws of the Isle of Man, §: “Insula Monæ”, ordinance proclaimed At a Court holden in Castle Rushen the 11th Day of August, Anno Domini 1736, page 240 (The Phœnix Press)

  [… M]any Instances have lately happened of notorious Malefactors, as well as Persons imprisoned for Debt, breaking and making their Escape out of Goale, and so by the Help of their Confederates secretting themselves, and clandestinely getting off the Island, by which Means Delinquents evade Justice, and honest People are deprived of their due Debts, to the great Detriment of the Publick […]

• 1776, August 6th: Thomas Gumersall, Declaration of Deputy-Commissary Gumersall, printed in:
• 1857: John Romeyn Brodhead, Esq. [proc.] and E. B. O’Callaghan, M.D., Ll.D. (editor), Documents Relative to the Colonial History of the State of New-York, volume VIII, page 683

  [… T]he said M^r Gumersall who was instrumental to him on the occasion, accompanied him a few miles further on his rout & then took his leave; after which with much difficulty after secretting himself & marching by night about 5 weeks he arrived at Staten Island ( where His Majesty’s troops were ) on the 19th of July & was by Gen^l Howe’s favor, thro’ the accommodation of John Small Esq^e Major of Brigade, appointed to his present office, in consideration of his sufferings & service, having oblig’d to abandon a very advantagious branch of trade in which he was largely concerned.

• ante 1899 (probably circa 1783): Public Papers of Governor [?], volume 1, page 776 (State Printers)

  Abraham Medach Brought Before the Court on the following Charges: 1st for Levying Warr against the United States of America; 2dly for Being an Inlisted soldier in the service of the King of Great Britain; 3dly for Inlisting men in the Service of s’d King; 4thly for Giving Aid, Assistance being adherent to and secretting the Enemies of s’d states. Pleads Generally, Not Guilty.

• 2003: Brian Silberman, Manifest: A Play, page 34 (University of Tampa Press; →ISBN, 9781879852938)

  (He lets one more stone fall from his hand, then snaps his palm shut, secretting the contents, holding the fist upraised in front of the girl, teasing her with his game.)

erroneous uses

• 1985: United States Department of Energy Technical Information Center, Energy Research Abstracts, volume 10, issues 29,613–33,112, page 4,239

  Minimum film boiling temperature is taken as a criterium for secretting and is compared with local cladding tube temperature which is established by way of a 2-D thermal conduction equation check calculation of experiments (Flecht) yielded sufficient agreement.