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surrepˈtitiously, adv.
[f. surreptitious a.1 + -ly2.]
In a surreptitious manner. a. By ‘surreption’: see surreptitious a.1 1.
1587–8Reg. Privy Council Scot. IV. 260 [Having been] previlie and surreptitiouslie [obtained]. 1655Fuller Ch. Hist. ix. ii. §25 The reasons..were falsely, and surreptitiously suggested to his Holiness. 1689Col. Rec. Pennsylv. I. 258 Certain decrees and Orders surreptitiously obtained by Thomas Wollaston. 1823Lingard Hist. Eng. VI. 179 The dispensation..was said..to have been surreptitiously obtained. 1876Bancroft Hist. U.S. I. x. 323 All charters and patents which had been surreptitiously obtained.
b. In an underhand way; secretly and without authority; clandestinely, by stealth, ‘on the sly’.
1643Sir T. Browne (title) A true and full coppy of that which was most imperfectly and Surreptitiously printed before vnder the name of Religio Medici. 1648D. Jenkins Wks. 45 Which confutes their saying that the King got the Seale away surreptitiously. 1656Cowley Misc. Pref., Either surreptitiously before, or avowedly after my death. 1710Steele & Addison Tatler No. 259 ⁋1 Surreptitiously taking away the Hassock from under Lady Grave-Airs. 1865Athenæum 28 June 124/2 James Duke begins the world as an anonymous infant, laid surreptitiously in a basket of clean linen. 1871Smiles Charac. x. (1876) 272 She carried it to church..in the guise of a missal, and read it surreptitiously during the service. 1879Froude Cæsar viii. 87 The proscription was over, and the list had been closed; but Roscius's name was surreptitiously entered upon it. 1898‘H. S. Merriman’ Roden's Corner xvi. 174 She surreptitiously touched the animal with her heel.
†c. Spuriously. Obs.
1680Lond. Gaz. No. 1556/4 That the Book..is falsly, and surreptitiously Ascrib'd to that worthy Person.
So surrepˈtitiousness.
1902‘H. S. Merriman’ Vultures xxix. 258 The quietness of the streets had a suggestion of surreptitiousness. |