detegere: retegere (the proper words; opposed to tegere, contegere: to reveal secrets, crimes, etc.): aperire (discover: also of secrets, crimes, etc.): patefacere (open what was before concealed; rem, odium, etc.): in medium proferre, or proferre only (to make anything generally known; in a good sense). (The words are found in this connection and order.) proferre et patefacere: enunciare, evulgare, divulgare (to declare publicly what ought not to be declared at all, or, at all events, only to confidential persons): manifestum facere (☞ manifestare never occurs in good prose): cum hominibus communicare (to reveal; of God: ecclesiastical, revelare): prodere (to betray). Revealed religion, *religio divinitus patefacta or cum hominibus communicata: to be revealed, patefieri: patescere: to reveal itself suddenly, e tenebris erumpere (Cic.).