† secretarianadj.
Obsolete. rare.
= secretarial adj.
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society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > non-manual worker > [adjective] > secretarial
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a1734 R. North Examen (1740) i. ii. §5 33 We may observe in his Book in most Years, a Catalogue of Preferments, with Dates and Remarks, which latter, by the Secretarian Touches, shew out of what Shop he had them.
a1734 R. North Examen (1740) i. iii. §37. 144 These false Glosses built upon certain Secretarian Expressions in Coleman's Letters.
1803 R. Southey Select. from Lett. (1856) I. 175 I do not receive livery and seisin of the secretarian pen till we reach London.
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