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Arcanum   Listen
noun
Arcanum  n.  (pl. arcana)  
1.
A secret; a mystery; generally used in the plural. "Inquiries into the arcana of the Godhead."
2.
(Med.) A secret remedy; an elixir.





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"Arcanum" Quotes from Famous Books



... Militaire. Even in Papeete, which has not half as many people as work in a certain building in New York, there is a bureaucracy, and the Cercle Militaire, in a park near the executive mansion on the rue de Rivoli, is its arcanum. Only members of the Government may belong, and a few others whose proposals must be stamped by the political powers. There is a garden, with a small library, but not many read in this climate, and ...
— Mystic Isles of the South Seas. • Frederick O'Brien


Words linked to "Arcanum" :   qabala, watchword, cabbalah, kabbalah, kabbala, parole, countersign, information, cabala, secret


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