clancular

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  1. Clandestine; secret; private; concealed. Not allowing to himself any reserve of carnal pleasure, no clancular lust, no private oppressions, no secret covetousness. Jer. Taylor, Works (ed. 1835), I. 836.

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  1. from Latin clancularius, secret, clandestine, from clanculum, secretly, a diminutive form, from clam, secretly: see clandestine.
 

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