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secretarial, a.|sɛkrɪˈtɛərɪəl|
[ad. L. type *sēcrētāriāl-is, f. med.L. sēcrētārius secretary: see -al1.]
a. Of or pertaining to a secretary or secretaries.
1801Bentham Mem. & Corr. Wks. 1843 X. 362 Mr. Rose promised..to place it with his own secretarial hands..on..the table of Mr. Pitt. 1851Dickens Lett. (1880) I. 244, I would like to have a talk with you about the secretarial duties. 1897Flor. Marryat Blood of Vampire xi, Mr. Milliken would be much occupied with secretarial work.
(b) spec. designed for the training of office secretaries, as secretarial college, secretarial course, secretarial school.
1922A. L. Church Training of Secretary 193 (Index) Secretarial schools. 1935R. Strachey Careers & Openings for Women ii. iv. 140 Short six or seven months' secretarial courses to make sure of an early start. 1935L. H. Turner Dict. Careers 73 A few [scholarships are] given by the leading secretarial colleges. 1941A. Huxley Let. 27 Nov. (1969) 473 Sophie has deserted acting for a secretarial school. 1953B. Gordon-Cumming Gentle Rain 119, I went through secretarial courses and things like that. 1967K. Giles Death in Diamonds i. 7, I finished secretarial school and I speak four languages. 1976M. Maguire Scratchproof vii. 107 She'd left secretarial college bubbling with big job enthusiasm.
b. Of type: = secretary n.1 4.
1864Panizzi in Fine Arts Q. Rev. II. 183 M. Francesco da Bologna..has devised a new form of letter, called cursive or secretarial. |