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▪ I. secretary, n.1 (and a.)|ˈsɛkrɪtərɪ|
Forms: 4–7 secretarie, 5– -airye, (secretrary), 5–6 secretarye, -ory, -orie, (6 Sc. secrittary), 5– secretary.
[ad. med.L. sēcrētārius a secretary, notary, scribe, etc., a title applied to various confidential officers (properly an adj.), f. sēcrēt-um secret n.: see -ary1 B. 1. (The equivalent late Latin title was ā sēcrētīs.) Cf. F. secrétaire (whence secretaire, secretar), Pr. secretari, Sp., Pg. secretario, It. secretario, segretario.]
A. n.
1.
†a. One who is entrusted with private or secret matters; a confidant; one privy to a secret. Obs.
1387Trevisa Higden (Rolls) V. 387 Þanne his secretarie [L. secretarius] tolde hym what he hadde i-seie and i-doo. c1400tr. Secreta Secret., Gov. Lordsh. cvi, At þe leste be he to þe trewe secretary, no þinge addand, no letiland, in þinges þat þou sendys hym. c1400Love Bonavent. Mirr. xl. (Gibbs MS.) lf. 88 Takyng wyth hym hys þre specyall secretaryes þat is to say petyre and james and john. c1440Promp. Parv. 451/1 Secretary, manne of privyte (v.r. of priui counsel), secretarius. c1440Gesta Rom. xliii. 171 (Harl. MS.), There come to him [the Emperor] a Secretarie, þat was nye of his counseill. 1451J. Capgrave St. Gilbert xxiii. 97 For to þat pryuyte he desyred no moo secretaries but God and seyntis. 1567Painter Pal. Pleas. II. 190 She..that was the secretarie of hir infortunate marriage. 1590Lodge Rosalynde (1592) N 2 b, Reueale it she durst not, as daring in such matters to make none her secretarie. 1590Greene Fr. Bacon xii. 75 Raphe tells all, you shall haue a good secretarie of him. 1665R. Brathwait Comment Two Tales 114 This Wife of Bath was too full of Chinks to be a good Secretary. 1815Scott Guy M. xvi, My good woman,..a faithful secretary to her sex's foibles.
†b. fig. of things personified. Obs.
1587Greene Euph. Cens. (1634) D 1, For they knew if ever (as time is a bad Secretary) their adulterous practises should come to the eares of Polumestor, a worse mishap then death should be allotted for their ingratefull mischiefe [etc.]. 1592Kyd Sp. Trag. iii. ii. 12 The night, sad secretary to my mones. 1615Daniel Hymen's Tri. iv. i. Wks. 1718 I. 131 Yonder spreading Beech Which often hath the Secretary been To my sad Thoughts. 1648Chas. I Let. 31 July Wks. (1662) i. 350 Lest it may be imagined that desire of Liberty should now be the only Secretary to My thoughts.
†c. Applied to those entrusted with the secrets or commands of God, or of a god. Obs.
1599Hakluyt Voy. II. i. 209 The mercifull God.. commaunded his secretarie Abraham to build him an house in Mecca. 1647N. Bacon Disc. Govt. Eng. i. i. 1 Their Priests, whom they [the Britons] accounted the onely Secretaries that God had on earth. 1657Heylin Eccl. Vind. ii. iii. §14. 164 There was no order and command of Moses, or of any other of Gods Secretaries. a1727Newton Chronol. Amended ii. (1728) 210 Thoth, the secretary of Osiris.
transf.1644Milton Ch. Govt. ii. Pref. 41 But were it the meanest under-service, if God by his Secretary conscience injoyn it, it were sad for me if I should draw back.
d. secretary of nature: one acquainted with the secrets of Nature.
This doubtless originally belonged to sense 2, being suggested by the title γραµµατεὺς τῆς ϕύσεως, applied (in Suidas) to Aristotle; but in the following examples the word is taken in its etymological sense.
1580G. Harvey Three Proper Lett. B iij b, The soundest Philosophers in deede, and very deepest Secretaries of Nature, holde..an other assertion. 1583Greene Mamillia i. Wks. (Grosart) II. 80, I cannot but maruel that among al these secretaries of nature, there haue neuer byn found any which haue enterprised to search out the essence and perfect nature of loue. 1635H. Valentine Foure Sea-Sermons 24 It is reported of Aristotle that great Secretary of Nature, that [etc.]. 1648Hunting of Fox 19 Solinus, and other Secretaries of nature. 1690C. Nesse Hist. & Myst. O. & N. Test. I. 29 Solomons wisdom..made him natures secretary.
2. a. One whose office it is to write for another; spec. one who is employed to conduct or assist with correspondence, to keep records, and (usually) to transact various other business, for another person or for a society, corporation, or public body.
In early use applied almost solely to the officer who conducted the correspondence of a king; app. often employed with some mixture of the etymological sense 1.
private secretary: a secretary employed by a minister of state or other high official for the personal correspondence connected with his official position; also applied to a secretary in the employ of a particular person (as distinguished from the secretary to a society, etc.). Also spec. in various civil service and parliamentary sub-ministerial posts: Parliamentary Private Secretary: see parliamentary a. 1; Permanent Secretary: see permanent a. 1 d; Second (or Third) Secretary: a senior civil servant in the Treasury immediately subordinate to the permanent (or second) secretary. Secretary of Embassy or Legation: an official of an embassy or diplomatic mission ranking next to the ambassador or envoy, and empowered to some extent to supply his place in his absence.
14..Sir Beues (ed. Kölbing) 58/2 (MS. C) Kyng Armyne..cawsyd hys secretory a lettyr to make. 1433Lydg. S. Edmund iii. 163 Burchardus..That of seyn Fremund whilom was secretarye. 1455Rolls of Parlt. V. 317/2 For the Office of oure Secretarie of Fraunce. 1465Mann. & Househ. Exp. (Roxb.) 167 My mastyre paid to the Kynges secretory, for makenge of a lettre fro the Kynge into Wales, for my lord, vj. s. viij. d. a1500Assembly of Ladies 553 Tak these billës to the secretary. a1513Fabyan Chron. vi. clxxxvi. (1811) 186 The Kynge was aboute to delyuer this letter to his scribe or secretory. 1540–1Elyot Image Gov. Pref. 1 Whiche boke was fyrst written in the Greke tonge by his secretarie named Eucolpius. 1576Fleming Panopl. Epist. 338 marg., He meaneth the Byshop of Yorke, to whom this Burbanco was secretarie. 1613Shakes. Hen. VIII, ii. ii. 116 Cardinall, Prethee call Gardiner to me, my new Secretary. 1706Phillips (ed. Kersey), Secretary, one that is employ'd in Writing Letters, Dispatches, &c. for a Prince, Nobleman, or particular Society: Also one that attends upon an Ambassadour, Envoy, or Resident for that purpose. The King's Secretaries, certain Officers that Sign the Dispatches of the Seal; also the Clerks of the King's Chamber and Closet. 1756–7tr. Keysler's Trav. (1760) IV. 424 The secretary of legation to that city. 1819Hermit in London II. 186 We have quill-drivers termed secretaries to such and such a firm. 1821(title) The Secretary's Assistant; exhibiting the various and most correct modes of Superscription, Commencement and Conclusion of Letters to Persons of every degree of Rank. 1838Dickens Nich. Nick. xvi, Nicholas wanted to know whether there was any such post as secretary to a gentleman to be had. 1845Philol. Soc. Trans. I. 6 The Rules drawn up for the regulation of the Society were then read by the Secretary. 1848Thackeray Van. Fair xxv, The Secretary of the treasury's ante⁓chamber. 1883‘Ouida’ Wanda I. 64 One letter her secretary could not answer for her. 1932Whitaker's Almanack 1933 329/1 Treasury... Permanent Secretary and Head of H.M. Civil Service, Sir Warren Fisher... Second Secretary, Sir Richard V. N. Hopkins. 1939Whitaker's Almanack 1940 433/1 Second Sec., Sir Richard V. N. Hopkins... Joint Third Secretaries, Sir Frederick Phillips..; Sir Alan Barlow. 1964Ld. Bridges Treasury xv. 145 The next rank in the Treasury is known as Second Secretary, which is the equivalent of a Permanent Secretary in other major departments. Ibid. 146 The next rank in the Treasury is Third Secretary which is the equivalent of a Deputy Secretary in a major department. 1976in R. Crossman Diaries II. 200 Philip Allen (K.C.B. 1964) was Second Secretary to the Treasury 1963–6.
b. transf. and fig.
1561T. Norton Calvin's Inst. iv. viii. §9. 49 b, The Apostles wer y⊇ certaine & authentike secretaries [L. amanuenses] of the Holy ghost. 1591Nashe Pref. to Sidney's Astrophel, Fayre sister of Phœbus, and eloquent secretary to the Muses, most rare Countesse of Pembroke. 1642Fuller Holy & Prof. St. v. ii. 364 Charles knew well that Necessity, her Secretary, endited her speech for her. 1665Boyle Occas. Refl. vi. i. (1848) 341 Those orders of hers, in which she employ'd not Rhetorick for her Secretary, could not be so much as listen'd to, much less obey'd.
†c. One who writes (on a particular occasion) for another. Obs.
1592Greene Groat's W. Wit (1617) 9 Words to court her you shall not want, for my selfe will be your Secretary.
†d. One skilled in letter-writing. Obs.
1586J. Hooker Chron. Irel. 160/2 in Holinshed, The gouernor, who was a verie good secretarie, and could pen a letter verie excellentlie well, did draw a letter.
†e. In the titles of books on the art of letter-writing. Obs.
1586A. Day (title) The English Secretorie. Wherein is contayned a perfect method for the inditing of all manner of Epistles and familiar letters, etc. 1715(title) A new Academy of complements; or the Lover's Secretary..in divers examples of writing and inditing letters.
3. a. In the official designations of certain ministers presiding over executive departments of state.
The occurrence of the title ‘(Principal) Secretary of State († Estate)’ under Queen Elizabeth may be taken as indicating the beginning of the development by which the king's secretary (in sense 2) became a minister invested with governing functions. Throughout the 17th c. there were two officials jointly holding the office of Secretary of State, and in the 18th c. the number varied between two and three; till near the close of this period the two (or two of the three) were distinguished as ‘Principal Secretary of State for the Southern Province’ and ‘Principal Secretary of State for the Northern Province’, with reference to the division between them of the control of foreign relations (see quot. 1755); but with regard to internal administration no division of functions was formally recognized. At the end of the 18th c. there were three Secretaries of State, and shortly afterwards the division of functions between them was recognized in their official designation, as ‘Secretary of State for Home Affairs’, ‘for Foreign Affairs’, and ‘for the Colonies’. In 1854 a Secretary of State for War was added, and 1858 a Secretary of State for India. The Secretaries of State are often more briefly called the Home Secretary, the Foreign Secretary, etc. The Chief Secretary for Ireland (officially styled the Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant, and informally the Irish Secretary), and the Secretary for Scotland (first appointed in 1885) were not secretaries of state, but had similar functions, and were (c 1911) members of the cabinet. The Secretary at War (down to 1855, when the office was united with that of the Secretary of State for War) was the parliamentary representative of the army, and had some degree of control over its finance. There have been numerous changes (too complex to set down here) in the nomenclature and duties of Secretaries of State since the nineteenth century. Since 1945, principal Secretaries of State have included the Secretary of State for the Home Department (Home Secretary), Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (Foreign Secretary), Industry, Defence, Employment, and Northern Ireland. The title Chief Secretary (to the Treasury) was introduced in 1961: it is a ministerial appointment as opposed to the various civil servant Treasury Secretaries. The principal Secretary of State (usu. the Home Secretary ) is sometimes referred to as the ‘First Secretary’.
In the U.S., the Secretary of State corresponds approximately to the British Foreign Secretary. Other cabinet ministers, heads of executive departments, are the Secretary of the Treasury, of War, of the Navy, of the Interior, of Agriculture. Each state of the Union has also its Secretary of State (or a corresponding officer with some other title). In recent years, the nomenclature of senior U.S. cabinet ministers has (as with their counterparts elsewhere) been subject to extensive changes.
1599Hakluyt Voy. II. i. 175 (transl. of Italian letter) Our Secretarie of estate. 1601in Rymer Foedera (1715) XVI. 421 Sir Robert Cecill Knighte our Principall Secretarie. 1603Ibid. 497 The Right Honorable Sir Robert Cecyll Knight Principall Secretary to her Majestie. 1620Ibid. XVII. 212 Sir Robert Naunton Knight one of our principall Secretaries of State. a1635Naunton Fragm. Reg. (Arb.) 30, I now come to the next, which was Secretary William Cecil. 1641Clarendon Hist. Reb. i. §141 The two Secretaries of State (who were not in those days officers of that magnitude they have been since, being only to make Dispatches upon the conclusion of Councils, not to govern, or preside in those Councils) were Sr John Coke..and Sr Dudley Carleton. 1693Luttrell Brief Rel. (1857) III. 175 Mr. Clerk, secretary at war. 1710–11Swift Jrnl. to Stella 17 Jan., I will speak to George Granville, Secretary at War, to make him a captain. 1755Chamberlayne's St. Gt. Britain (ed. 38) i. 85 Secretaries of State... The Correspondence with all Parts of Great Britain is, without Distinction, managed by either of the Secretaries... But as for the Foreign Affairs, all the Nations..are by them divided into Two Provinces, the Northern, and Southern; of which the Northern is usually under the Junior Secretary, and contains Scandinavia, &c. The Southern under the Senior, and contains Flanders, France, &c. At present (Anno 1752) the Case is just the Reverse. 1774Burke Amer. Tax. Wks. II. 368 Lord Hillsborough, secretary of state for the colonies. 1789Deb. Congr. U.S. 26 Sept. (1834) 90, I likewise nominate Thomas Jefferson, for Secretary of State. 1846J. K. Polk Diary 20 Mar. (1910) I. 293 Forty or fifty persons..called; among them the Russian Minister, the Secretary of State, [etc.]. 1863Act 26 & 27 Vict. c. 12 §1 From and after the passing of this Act the Office of Secretary at War shall be..abolished. 1863Kinglake Crimea (ed. 3) II. 72 note, According to the practice which was in force up to the summer of 1854, the Secretary of State for the Colonies was also the ‘Secretary of War’... In peace-time (thanks to the labours of the ‘Horse Guards’, the office of the Secretary at War, the Ordnance, and several other offices) the duties of the Colonial Secretary, in his character as Secretary of War, were very slight. 1906‘Mark Twain’ Autobiogr. (1924) I. 236 He had been ambassador, brilliant orator,.. admirable Secretary of State. 1940W. Faulkner Hamlet i. iii. 74 A gold-filled diploma from the Secretary of State at Jackson saying for all men to know by these presents, greeting, that them twenty thousand goats..is goats. 1961Times 10 Oct. 12/1 As Chief Secretary (a title used for the first time) Mr. Brooke will come under the general policy direction of the Chancellor. 1962Hansard Commons 19 July 632 The Prime Minister: My right hon. Friend the First Secretary of State will act as Deputy Prime Minister. a1974R. Crossman Diaries (1975) I. 610 Oh dear, it is a panjandrum committee—the Prime Minister, First Secretary, Foreign Secretary, the Minister of Defence, the Minister of Labour for some reason, myself. 1976Billings (Montana) Gaz. 20 June 8-a/4 Nixon, whom Bill Rogers (secretary of state from 1969 to 1973) referred to as the world's youngest elder statesman, had acquired enormous stature in world affairs.
b. Mr. Secretary: used before the name of a secretary of state, or as a title instead of his name. Now only official and Hist.
1576in Nichols Progr. Eliz. (1823) II. 42 Mr. Secretary. Mr. Threasurer. Mr. Comptroller. 1613Shakes. Hen. VIII, v. iii. 1 [Scene, A Councell Table... Cromwell at lower end, as Secretary.] Chan. Speake to the businesse, M. Secretary; Why are we met in Councell? 1711Swift Jrnl. to Stella 30 Aug., On Saturday I go to Windsor with Mr. Secretary. 1760Rhode Island Col. Rec. (1861) VI. 243 A letter from Mr. Secretary Pitt. 1911Times 23 Feb. 15/5 The Speaker asked who were prepared to bring in the Bill. Mr. Asquith.—The Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr. Secretary Churchill, Mr. Secretary Haldane, Mr. Pease, the Attorney-General, and myself.
4. Short for secretary hand, type: see B.
1771Luckombe Hist. Printing 42 The character itself was a rude old Gothic mixed with Secretary. 1778Mores Dissert. 4 And first Mr Caxton—his letter originally was of the sort called Secretary. 1784Astle Orig. Writ. v. 146 In the sixteenth century, the English lawyers engrossed their conveyances and legal instruments in characters called Secretary, which are still in use. 1969M. B. Parkes Eng. Cursive Book Hands 1250–1500 p. xx, One of the outstanding features of the history of English handwriting in the fifteenth century is the gradual infiltration of this new script, which in its English form we now call ‘secretary’, into all classes of books and documents, until by the sixteenth century it had become the principal script in use in this country. 1978Bodl. Libr. Rec. IX. 324 The writing exercises..are confined in the rectos of the pages, except for practice alphabets in secretary and in a text hand on ff. 30b and 57b respectively.
5. A writing-desk, a secretaire. Now chiefly U.S.
After F. secrétaire, prob. a transferred use; cf. however secretary n.2
1803T. Sheraton Cabinet Dict. 303 Secretary. This term..among cabinet makers..is applied to certain pieces of furniture to write at. 1805Times 7 Nov. 4/4 Genuine household furniture, and valuable Effects..consisting of.. Excellent mahogany secretary and bookcase. 1819A. Constable Let. 21 Mar. in J. Constable Corr. (1962) I. 178 The secretary in the White Room sold for 9 pounds or guineas, I forget which. 1833Loudon Encycl. Archit. §2096 Writing-Tables, or Secretaries. 1858G. Macdonald Phantastes i. 2 An old secretary, in which my father had kept his private papers. 1865G. W. Bagby Writings (1885) II. 27 When you come to open his ‘secretary’..you will find his bonds, accounts..lying about loose. 1893Leland Mem. I. 227 My first thought was for this money, so I hurried to get the key of the secretary in which it was. 1975D. Ramsay Descent into Dark ii. 68 Anita..was..stripping the finish from a maple secretary with a blowtorch. 1980A. N. Wilson Healing Art xi. 129 There was a grandfather clock, and a roll-top secretary.
6. The secretary-bird (see 7).
1781tr. Sonnerat's Voy. Spice-Isl. 19 The Secretary, with a crest down back of the neck. 1850R. G. Cumming Hunter's Life S. Afr. (1902) 144/1 When the tree fell, out from its nest rolled a young secretary.
7. attrib. and Comb., as † secretary-craft, secretary desk (now only U.S.), secretary-interpreter, secretary-office; (appositively) secretary-treasurer, secretary-typist; secretary- († secretaries) bird, (a) a raptorial bird of South Africa, Serpentarius secretarius; said to be so called from a tuft of feathers at the back of the head which have a fanciful resemblance to pens stuck behind the ear; also called secretary-falcon, secretary-vulture; (b) [bird n. 1 d], a punning term for a young woman employed as a secretary; secretary-general (see quots. 1701, 1861); also spec. the title of the principal official of a Communist party or of some international organizations (as the United Nations); hence secretary-generalship.
1797Encycl. Brit. (ed. 3) XVII. 236/2 *Secretaries bird,..classed by Latham under the genus Vultur. 1824Goldsmith's Nat. Hist. III. Index, Secretary-bird devours serpents. 1870Gillmore tr. Figuier's Reptiles & Birds 611 The Secretary Bird (Serpentarius secretarius,..) has a widely-opening bill, very crooked and very powerful. 1969W. Douglas-Home (title) The secretary bird. 1974I. Murdoch Sacred & Profane Love Machine 50 Since Pinn had become what she called a ‘secretary bird’ she had become much smarter. 1976Deakin & Willis Johnny go Home xvi. 184 Even London's ‘Secretary Birds’..have problems finding somewhere to live.
a1661Fuller Worthies, Kent (1662) ii. 75 None alive did better ken the *Secretary Craft, to get Counsels out of others, and keep them in himself.
1798Hull Advertiser 28 July 2/1 Eight fashionable *secretary desks. 1967Mrs. L. B. Johnson White House Diary 23 Apr. (1970) 509 Mr. Hoes showed me a secret drawer in the secretary desk.
1802Bingley Anim. Biog. (1805) II. 185 An engagement between the *Secretary Falcon and a serpent.
1701Lond. Gaz. No. 3713/3 The Sieur de Capistron, *Secretary-General of the French Galleys. 1861[see Secretariat]. 1934B. W. Maxwell Soviet State iii. 42 In theory the Political Bureau is appointed by the Central Committee; in reality the Secretary-General of the Party, if he is powerful enough, makes the selection. This is the case at present, since Stalin is the Secretary-General. 1949T. Lie Road to Peace 1 (heading) Secretary-General of the United Nations. 1954E. H. Carr Interregnum 336 Speculating what the secretary-general would report at the next party congress. 1968U.N. Security Council Proc. 10 in Parl. Papers 1967–8 (Cmnd. 3757) XLII. 229 The Secretary-General deplores any resort to force to settle international problems, wherever it may occur, in contravention of the Charter of the United Nations.
1959Economist 9 May 506/1 According to one view of *secretary-generalship. 1977Westindian World 3–9 June 10/1 The whole trend of his Secretary-Generalship so far..is to place the Commonwealth firmly in its global setting.
1904Sladen Lovers in Japan ii. xii, The *Secretary-Interpreter at the Legation.
1821Scott Kenilw. xl, We will..place the boy in our *Secretary-office.
1920Constitution of Santa Barbara Club (Santa Barbara, Calif.), Officers..*Secretary-Treasurer William Wyles. 1979Yale Alumni Mag. Apr. (Suppl.) cn 11/2 He is a past president and secretary-treasurer of the American Association of Law Schools.
[1939Daily Tel. 18 Dec. 13/2 (Advt.), Secretary-shorthand-typist, good correspondent, required immediately for engineer.] 1957S. Smith Not waving but Drowning 34 Dark was the day for Childe Rolandine the artist When she went to work as a *secretary-typist. 1976Milton Keynes Express 2 July 4/4 His wife, a secretary-typist, had left for work.
1781Latham Synopsis Birds I. i. 20 *Secretary Vulture.
B. adj. As the distinctive epithet of a style of handwriting used chiefly in legal documents from the 15th to the 17th c. Hence applied to a kind of black-letter type imitating this.
1571De Beau Chesne & Baildon (title) A booke containing divers sortes of hands, as well the English as French Secretarie, with the Italian, Roman, Chancelry & court hands. 1587Fleming Contn. Holinshed III. 1370/2 One written in the secretarie hand..and the other in the Roman hand. 1594Plat Jewell-ho. 41 The Secretarie small a, hath six partes before it bee made uppe. 1649Dk. Newcastle Country Capt. ii. i, Papers defild with court hand and long dashes or secretary lines, that straddle, more then Frenchmen. 1705Wanley MSS. in Phil. Trans. XXV. 2000 Like as many Antient People, who do yet continue to write the Roman and Secretary Hands, which were more fashionable 50 or 60 years ago, than now. 1710Hearne Collect. (O.H.S.) III. 86 The French is printed in a secretary character. 1740Richardson Pamela (1824) I. 127 Don't you see, by the setness of some of these letters, and a little secretary cut here and there,..that it is the hand of a person bred in the law way? 1845Black Catal. Ashm. MSS. 104 The other MS. contained in this volume was written in the time of Q. Elizabeth, in the secretary-hand. 1877F. C. Price Facsimiles Caxton, Memoir, When Caxton started in England his whole stock of type consisted of two founts, a church or text type and a secretary type.
▪ II. † secretary, n.2 Obs. rare.
Also secretorie.
[ad. late L. sēcrētārium, f. sēcrētum: see -ary1 B. 2.]
A secret chamber or repository. Also fig.
c1440Alphabet of Tales 323 Saynt Martyn..went in-to his secretorie & doffid his cote. c1440Promp. Parv. 451/1 Secretary, or place in privy councelle (v.r. place of privyte or cowncel), secretarium. c1450tr. De Imitatione iii. xliii. 114 Þou owist to fle into þe secretary of þin herte, bisechinge inwardly þe helpe of god.
▪ III. ˈsecretary, v.
[f. secretary n.1]
a. trans. To assist (someone) secretarially. nonce-use.
b. intr. To work as a secretary (esp. an office secretary). Also const. to. colloq. Hence ˈsecretarying vbl. n.
1927Punch 26 Oct. 450/1 Poor old Henry..is in the soup again... He secretaries my uncle,..and as a rule we lunch together. 1933Wodehouse Heavy Weather v. 73 Fellow named Carmody, who has been secretarying there. 1958Times Lit. Suppl. 26 Dec. 749/4 Dish-washing here, secretarying there, finally helping out as Bursar in a school dominated by the headmaster's demented wife. 1971K. Dick Ivy & Stevie 55 Stevie..secretaried..to Sir Neville Pearson and Sir Frank Newnes. 1975P. G. Winslow Death of Angel vi. 142 She got fed up with secretarying. |