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English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin arreptīcius.
Adjective
arreptitious (comparative more arreptitious, superlative most arreptitious)
- 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
- Taken away; also done in privacy.