“arreptitious”的英文意思_释义_用法

单词

arreptitious

释义

† arrepˈtitious, a. Obs.
[f. L. arreptīci-us, f. arreptus: see prec. and -itious.]
1. Liable to raptures, ecstatic, frantic, mad.
a1641Bp. R. Montagu Acts & Mon. 201 Such arreptitious ones fashion to themselves rivers, mountaines, beasts, monsters..which proceed merely from disturbance of the brain.c1645Howell Lett. (1650) I. 475 Odd arrepititious frantic extravagancies.1656Blount Glossogr., Arreptitious, caught or tormented by a devil.
2. Characterized by having been hastily seized or caught up; hasty, hurried.
1653Manton Exp. James ii. 19 Assent now is nothing so much as it was then, especially when it is trivial and arreptitious, rather than deliberate.
¶ Also referred by Blount to L. arrēpĕre, ‘to creep to,’ and defined ‘he that steals or creeps in privily’ (cf. surreptitious); whence in Bailey, etc.

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