hidadj.
/hɪd/, U.S. /hɪd/ a. Hidden, concealed, secret.
ΘΠ
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > secrecy, concealment > [adjective]
dernc897
dighela1000
hid?c1225
stillc1275
stillyc1275
covertc1303
secrec1374
secret1399
secretivec1470
covered1484
dark1532
underhid1532
hiddena1547
concealed1558
abstruse1576
unshewing1598
mystical1600
of secreta1616
mystica1625
subterraneous1652
researched1653
hugger-mugger1692
hidlingsa1810
sub rosa1824
cachet1837
cloak and dagger1841
theftuous1881
q.t.1910
closet1966
down-low1991
?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 132 Semey bitacneð þe utward ancre naut ester þe hudde.
c1380 J. Wyclif Wks. (1880) 299 Pharisees..þat ben hud monumentis.
c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) 1 Cor. iv. 5 Þe hid thingis of derknessis.
a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 150 Hid malyce and dispyte.
a1599 R. Rollock Serm. in Sel. Wks. (1849) I. 379 He will seirche..to the hiddest hirnes of thy hart.
1608 J. Dod & R. Cleaver Plaine Expos. Proverbs xi–x x. 44 Such things as they can come by: which is called hid food.
1820 J. Keats Lamia ii, in Lamia & Other Poems 30 Like the hid scent in an unbudded rose.
ΘΠ
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > keeping from knowledge > keeping from publication > [adverb]
in hid (hiddis)a1340
in hidelsa1400
a1340 R. Rolle Psalter xxvi. 9 He hild me..in the hid [L. in abscondito] of his tabernakile.
c1380 Eng. Wycliffite Serm. in Sel. Wks. II. 104 No man doiþ ouȝt in hiddis and ȝit he castiþ to be in apert.
c1475 (?c1400) Apol. Lollard Doctr. (1842) 104 Þingis þat þei don in hid.
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