The branch of philosophy concerned with the law and the principles that lead courts to make the decisions they do the force of policemen and officers; "the law came looking for him" the learned profession that is mastered by graduate study in a law school and that is responsible for the judicial system; "he studied law at Yale" a rule or body of rules of conduct inherent in human nature and essential to or binding upon human society a generalization that describes recurring facts or events in nature; "the laws of thermodynamics" the collection of rules imposed by authority; "civilization presupposes respect for the law"; "the great problem for jurisprudence to allow freedom while enforcing order" legal document setting forth rules governing a particular kind of activity; "there is a law against kidnapping"
An entertainer who attracts large audiences; "he was the biggest drawing card they had" a characteristic that provides pleasure and attracts; "flowers are an attractor for bees" the quality of arousing interest; being attractive or something that attracts; "her personality held a strange attraction for him" an entertainment that is offered to the public the force by which one object attracts another
The next to highest level of official classification for documents having an import not apparent to the senses nor obvious to the intelligence; beyond ordinary understanding; "mysterious symbols"; "the mystical style of Blake"; "occult lore"; "the secret learning of the ancients" indulging only covertly; "a secret alcoholic" (of information) given in confidence or in secret; "this arrangement must be kept confidential"; "their secret communications" hidden from general view or use; "a privy place to rest and think"; "a secluded romantic spot"; "a secret garden" designed to elude detection; "a hidden room or place of concealment such as a priest hole"; "a secret passage"; "the secret compartment in the desk" not expressed; "secret (or private) thoughts" communicated covertly; "their secret signal was a wink"; "secret messages" not openly made known; "a secret marriage"; "a secret bride" conducted with or marked by hidden aims or methods; "clandestine intelligence operations"; "cloak-and-dagger activities behind enemy lines"; "hole-and-corner intrigue"; "secret missions"; "a secret agent"; "secret sales of arms"; "surreptitious mobilization of troops"; "an undercover investigation"; "underground resistance" not open or public; kept private or not revealed; "a secret formula"; "secret ingredients"; "secret talks" something that baffles understanding and cannot be explained; "how it got out is a mystery"; "it remains one of nature's secrets" information known only to a special group; "the secret of Cajun cooking" something that should remain hidden from others (especially information that is not to be passed on); "the combination to the safe was a secret"; "he tried to keep his drinking a secret"