An organization of people bound together by oaths to carry out the evil purposes of the group.
The father of lies stirreth up the children of men unto secret combinations, 2 Ne. 9: 9. I must needs destroy the secret works of darkness, 2 Ne. 10: 15. Judgments of God did come upon these workers of secret combinations, Alma 37: 30. Gadianton did prove almost the entire destruction of the people of Nephi, Hel. 2: 4-13. Satan put it into the hearts of the people to form secret oaths and covenants, Hel. 6: 21-31. The Lord worketh not in secret combinations, Ether 8: 19. Nations that uphold secret combinations shall be destroyed, Ether 8: 22-23. They did reject all the words of the prophets, because of their secret society, Ether 11: 22. From the days of Cain, there was a secret combination, Moses 5: 51.