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[Eng. concealed; -ne .] The quality or state of being concealed or hidden; secrecy, privacy. CONCAVE, a. (q. v.) "The concavous part of the liver was called.."Archbishop Potter: Antiquities of Greece , bk. i., ch. xiv. con-ca-vous-ly, adv . [Eng. concave us; -ly.] Hollow on the side presented to the eye; presenting the aspect of a hollow sphere. "By the others she restrained a most ravenous sort of men, whom they call concealers , by revoking their commi ion, and forcing them to restore what they had taken. For these concealers , being appointed to inquire whether any lands belonging to the Crown were concealed by private men, had begun, with sacrilegious avarice, to B. Intransitive: conceit 1. To grant, to admit, to allow. "We concede that self-love is the strongest and most natural love of man."-Hewyt: Serm . (1658), p. 93. *2. To give way, to make conce ions. I wished you to concede to America, at a time when she prayed conce ion at our feet."-Burke: Speech at Bristol previous to Election , côn-çed-ěd, pa . par . & a. [CONCEDE, १.] *côn-çe-dençe, s. [Lat. concedens , pr par. of concedo.] A conceding, yielding, or giving way; a conce ion. "All I had to apprehend was, that a daughter, so reluc tantly carried off, would offer terms to her father, and would be accepted upon a mutual concedence."- Richard son: Clari a, vol. iii., let. 19. (Davies.) *con-çe-dent, a. [Lat. concedens.] Conceding, yielding, or giving way. côn-çë-ding, pr. par., a & s. [CONCEDE, 2.] A. & B. As pr. par. & particip. adj.: (See the verb.) C. As subst.: The act of yielding or admitting; conce ion. IMG:content-0451.png:[ocr errors] IMG:content-0452.png:[blocks in formation] 1. To hide or cover from sight or observation. neither shalt thou spare, neither shalt thou conceal him." -Deut . xiii. 8. 2. To keep secret or hidden; to keep back from publicity or utterance. "This malady, I well could mark, Sprung from some direful cause and dark; But still he kept its source concealed ." Scott : Rokeby , iv. 19. With from before the person kept in ignorance. "Hit shal not from yow be con ceiled ." Merlin, iii. 548. B. Intransitive: 1. To hide or keep back from publicity or knowledge; to keep close, not to divulge. "Thou has to me conceled That my lorde hath with other deled." Gower , ii. 282. *2. To be or remain hidden or secret. "The thing wont conceal."-Ferrier: Marriage (1818), vol. ii., p. 214. (1) Crabb thus distinguishes between to conceal, to di emble , and to disguise : "To conceal is simply to abstain from making known what we wish to keep secret; to di emble and disguise signify to conceal, by a uming some false appearance: we conceal facts; we di emble feelings; we disguise sentiments. Caution only is requisite in concealing: it may be effected by simple silence; art and addre must be employed in di embling : it mingles falsehood with all its proceedings; labor and cunning are requisite in disguising: it has nothing but falsehood in all its movements." (2) He thus discriminates between to conceal , to hide, and to secrete: " Concealing has simply the idea of not letting come to observation; hiding that of putting under cover; secreting that of setting at a distance or in unfrequented places. Whatever is not seen is concealed , but whatever is hidden or secreted is intentionally put out of sight: a person conceals himself behind a hedge; he hides his treasures in the earth; he secretes what he has stolen under his cloak. Conceal is more general than either hide or secrete: all things are concealed which are hidden or secreted , but are not always hidden or secreted when they are concealed . Both mental and mostly and sometimes ones are hidden ; cor corporeal objects are concealed ; corporeal objects poreal objects only are secreted ; we conceal in the mind whatever we do not make known; that is hid den which may not be discovered or cannot be discerned; that is secreted which may not be seen. Facts are concealed , truths are hidden , goods are secreted. ( Crabb : Eng . Synon.)