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English
Etymology
From Late Latin reptitius (“creeping”), corruption of Latin reperticius, from reptus (“crept, crawled”) + -īcius (“-itious”), from rēpere (“to creep, to crawl”), modified by English -ious, q.v. Cognate with repent, reptant, reptile, reptilious, surreptitious.
Pronunciation
Adjective
reptitious (comparative more reptitious, superlative most reptitious)
- (obsolete) Synonym of reptile: creeping, crawling.
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Reptitious, ſtealing or creeping on by degrees.]
- 1661, Thomas Blount, Glossographia, 2nd ed., s.v. "Reptile or Reptitious":
- Reptile or Reptitious, that creeps; or, by privy means, gets to high estate.
1742, Charles Owen, An Essay towards a Natural History of Serpents, page 2:Some Serpents are reptitious, creep on the Belly, and some have Feet.
- (obsolete) Synonym of reptilian: reptilelike, (figuratively) cold-blooded, treacherous.
- 1661, Thomas Blount, Glossographia, 2nd ed., s.v. "Reptile or Reptitious":
- Reptile or Reptitious, that creeps; or, by privy means, gets to high estate.
1675, Edmund Borlase, The Reduction of Ireland to the Crown of England, page 172:Whether proceeds from... some Occult cause, no venomous Creature living to suck that which may be thought... well distributed amongst reptitious Animals, I shall not determine.
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