| Mawson, C.O.S., ed. (1870–1938). Roget’s International Thesaurus. 1922. |
| Class IV. Words Relating to the Intellectual Faculties |
| Division (II) Communication of Ideas |
| Section II. Modes of Communication |
| 528. Concealment. |
| NOUN: | CONCEALMENT; hiding &c. v.; occultation, mystification. reticence, reserve, reservation; mental reservation, aside; arrière pensée [F.], suppression, evasion, white lie, misprision; silence (taciturnity) [See Taciturnity]; suppression of truth [See Falsehood]; underhand dealing; closeness, secret veness &c. adj.; mystery. seal of secrecy; freemasonry; screen [See Ambush]; disguise [See Ambush]; masquerade; masked battery; hiding place [See Ambush]. CRYPTOGRAPHY, steganography; cipher, code, cable code; sympathetic ink, palimpsest. STALKING, still-hunt, hunt. STEALTH, stealthiness; obreption [obs.]; slyness (cunning) [See Cunning]. SECRECY, latitancy [rare], latitation [obs.]; seclusion [See Seclusion. Exclusion]; privacy, secretness, hugger-mugger [archaic]; disguise, incognito (fem. incognita). MYSTICISM, occultism, supernaturalism; esotericism, esoterics, esotery. LATENCY [See Latency]; snake in the grass; secret [See Secret]; stowaway; blind baggage [slang]. MASQUERADER, masker, mask, domino. |
| VERB: | CONCEAL, hide, secrete, put out of sight; lock up, seal up, bottle up. cover, screen, cloak, veil, shroud; cover up one’s tracks; screen from -sight, - observation; draw the veil; draw -, close- the curtain; curtain, shade, eclipse, throw a veil over; becloud, bemask; mask, disguise; ensconce, muffle; befog; whisper. keep- from, - back, - to oneself; keep -snug, - close, - secret, - dark; bury; sink, suppress; keep -from, - out of- -view, - sight; keep in -, throw into- the -shade, - background; stifle, hush up, smother, withhold, reserve; fence with a question; ignore [See Neglect]. CODE, codify; use a -code, - cipher. KEEP A SECRET, keep one’s own counsel; hold one’s tongue (silence) [See Taciturnity]; make no sign, not let it go further; not breathe a -word, - syllable- about; not let the right hand know what the left is doing; hide one’s light under a bushel, bury one’s talent in a napkin. HOODWINK; keep -, leave- in -the dark, - ignorance; blind, - the eyes; blindfold, mystify; puzzle (render uncertain) [See Uncertainty]; bamboozle (deceive) [See Deception]. BE CONCEALED &c. v.; suffer an eclipse; occult, retire from sight, couch; hide oneself; lie -hid, - in ambush, - perdu, - snug, - low [colloq.], - close; latitate [obs.]; seclude oneself [See Seclusion. Exclusion]; lurk, sneak, skulk, slink, prowl, gumshoe [slang, U. S.]; steal -into, - out of, - by, - along; play at -bopeep, - hide and seek; hide in holes and corners; stillhunt. |
| ADJECTIVE: | CONCEALED &c. v.; hidden; secret, latitant [rare], recondite, mystic, mystical, cabalistic or cabalistical, occult, dark; cryptic or cyptical, private, privy, in petto [It.], auricular, clandestine, close, close-mouthed, inviolate; tortuous. behind a screen [See Ambush]; under -cover, - an eclipse; in ambush, in hiding, in disguise; in a -cloud, - fog, - mist, - haze, - dark corner; in the -shade, - dark; clouded, wrapt in clouds; invisible [See Invisibility]; buried, underground, perdu; secluded [See Seclusion. Exclusion]. UNDISCLOSED [See Disclosure], untold [See Information]; covert (latent) [See Latency]; mysterious (unintelligible) [See Unintelligibility]. INVIOLABLE, irrevealable, confidential; esoteric; not to be spoken of. FURTIVE, obreptitious, stealthy, feline; skulking &c. v.; surreptitious, underhand, hole and corner [colloq.]; sly (cunnin) [See Cunning]; secretive, clandestine, evasive; reserved, reticent, uncommunicative, buttoned up; close, - as wax; taciturn [See Taciturnity]. |
| ADVERB: | SECRETLY &c. adj.; in secret, in private, in one’s sleeve, in holes and corners [colloq.]; in the dark &c. adj. januis clausis [L.], with closed doors, à huis clos [F.]; hugger-mugger, in hugger-mugger [archaic], à la dérobée [F.], under the -cloak of, - rose, - table; sub rosâ [L.], en tapinois [F.], in the background, aside, on the sly [colloq.], with bated breath, sotto voce, in a whisper, without beat of drum, à la sourdine [F.]. BEHIND THE VEIL; beyond -mortal ken, - the grave, - the veil; hid from mortal vision; into the -eternal secret, - realms supersensible, - supreme mystery. CONFIDENTIALLY &c. adj.; in -, in strict- confidence; between -ourselves, - you and me; entre nous [F.], inter nos [L.], under the seal of secrecy; à couvert [F.]. UNDERHAND, by stealth, like a thief in the night; stealthily &c. adj.; behind -the scenes, - the curtain, - one’s back, - a screen [See Ambush]; incognito; in camerâ [L.]. |
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