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SEC'RETARY, n. L. secretus, secret originally a confident, one entrusted with secrets.
1. A person employed by a public body, by a company or by an individual, to write orders, letters, dispatches, public or private papers, and the like. Thus ligislative bodies have secretaries, whose business is to record all their laws and resolves. Embassadors have secretaries.
2. An officer whose business is to superintend and manage the affairs of a particular department of government as the secretary of state, who conducts correspondence of a state with foreign courts: the secretary of the treasury, who manages the department of finance the secretary of war, of the navy, &c.
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Dictionary of Words from the King James Bible. Public Domain. Copy freely.
Material presented was supplied by Brandon Staggs and was derived from the KJV Dictionary found on his website located at av1611.com.
The unabridged 1828 version of this dictionary in the SwordSearcher Bible Software.
Dictionary of Words from the King James Bible. Public Domain. Copy freely.
Material presented was supplied by Brandon Staggs and was derived from the KJV Dictionary found on his website located at av1611.com.
The unabridged 1828 version of this dictionary in the SwordSearcher Bible Software.
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Entry for 'Secretary'. King James Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/kjd/s/secretary.html.
Entry for 'Secretary'. King James Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/kjd/s/secretary.html.
