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arreptitious

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English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin arreptīcius.

Adjective

arreptitious (comparative more arreptitious, superlative most arreptitious)

  1. Possessed; raving; isolated from reality.
    • 1631, John Mayer, A Commentarie Vpon All the Epistles of the Apostle Pavl, Being fourteen:
      He denieth to have received the spirit of the world, that is as Anselme hath it, an arreptitious spirit, called Python, to divine conjecture
  2. Taken away; also done in privacy.
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