CLANCULAR ADJ. secret, private; clandestine, underhand - 1621 obs. ETYMOLOGY from Latin clanculārius (secret), from clanculum (adv.), diminutive of clam (in secret, privately) FIRST DOCUMENTED USE 1621 - see EXAMPLE below EXAMPLE "...But experience pronounceth otherwise, that hee can worke both vpon body and minde. Tertullian is of this opinion, that he can cause both sicknesse and health, and that secretly Taurellus adds, by clancular poysons hee can infect the bodies, and hinder the operations of the bowels, though we perceaue it not, closely creeping into them, saith Lipsius, & so crucifie our soules..." From: The Anatomy of Melancholy - Robert Burton
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