1707 J. Floyer Physician's Pulse-watch 57 The Mass of Blood is chiefly Chyle, chang'd and mix'd with these secreted Humours.

1800 E. Darwin Phytologia vi. vi. 80 Every other secreted fluid in the animal body is in part absorbed again into the system.

1871 A. B. Garrod Essentials Materia Medica (new ed.) 413 Diuretics are also administered for the purpose of producing a large flow from the kidneys, so as to enable the secreted urine to hold in solution substances which would otherwise crystallise.

1756 T. Amory Life John Buncle I. 241 Yet it is the small secreted spring that directs, draws, checks, and gives movement to every weight and wheel.

a1807 W. Wordsworth Prelude (1959) x. 408 Not in Utopia, subterraneus Fields, Or some secreted Island, Heaven knows where.