subreptionn.1
/səˈbrɛpʃn/, U.S. /səˈbrɛpʃən/ 1. Misrepresentation or suppression of the truth or facts; an act or instance of this.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > misrepresentation > [noun] > instance of
misreport1530
misrecital1539
misreciting1572
subreption1587
travesty1674
false pretences1757
1587 Wilkes Let. 27 Jan. in H. Brugmans Correspondentie van R. Dudley (1931) II. 81 The terme of subreption is too frequent here among them in other thinges.
1622 T. Roe True & Faithfull Relation Constantinople sig. Ev The innocent King protests hee knowes nothing of this purpose: and if his command were procured, it was gotten by subreption.
a1681 G. Wharton Wks. (1683) 139 The Prince comes to Rule, either by a violent Invasion, or a crafty Subreption.
1763 St. James's Mag. 2 346 It is a subreption, said he, I ought not to avail myself of it.
1865 J. H. Stirling Sir W. Hamilton 47 Hamilton has long been aware of the inconveniences of sense. What are called its subreptions, its mistakes, blunders, errors.
1892 Independent (N.Y.) 21 July This remark about ‘climbing from a lower estate to a higher’, is one of those neat little subreptions which sentimental recruits employ to deceive themselves.
1920 Ann. Rep. Michigan Acad. Sci. 204 The general code which tends to suppress the ‘knocker’, the wholly understandable local sentiment resulting in political pressure,..account largely for the peculiar subreption which so often obtains in connection with ‘agricultural development’.
1991 Frederick (Maryland) Post 7 June a7/1 His first subreption, or misrepresentation of facts, went as follows.
2008 State Jrnl.-Reg. (Springfield, Illinois) (Nexis) 19 June 7 Mismanagement is not criminal, but co-opting national services and risking lives through subreption, or deliberate misrepresentation, qualifies heartily.
2. spec.
a. Ecclesiastical Law. Suppression of the truth or concealment of facts in order to obtain a dispensation, etc.Contrasted with obreption n. 1(a).
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society > faith > worship > sacrilege > clerical misbehaviour > [noun] > obtaining something by craft or deceit
subreption1602
obreption1706
1602 W. Watson Decacordon Ten Quodlibeticall Questions 343 [The bulls] were procured either merily by subreption, or..false information.
a1656 Bp. J. Hall Shaking of Olive-tree (1660) ii. 344 Lest there should be any subreption in this sacred business, it is Ordered, that these Ordinations should be no other then solemn.
1706 tr. L. E. Du Pin New Eccl. Hist. 16th Cent. II. iii. xx. 361 Having a Power of enquiring into all Subreptions, Obreptions, or defects of Intention.
1728 E. Chambers Cycl. (at cited word) Subreption differs from Obreption, in that Obreption is a false Expression of the Quality of a Thing or Fact, &c. And Subreption, a want of Expression.
1761 R. Challoner in E. H. Burton Life Bp. Challoner (1909) II. xxiv. 26 Purely in consideration of your request (tho' I apprehended he had obtained it by subreption) I consented to give him those faculties.
1876 tr. J. A. G. Hergenröther Catholic Church & Christian State II. 160 His rescript..may have been obtained..by obreption..and by subreption.
1894 Month Mar. 391 If in a petition for a dispensation..it is the truth that is suppressed..there is said to be subreption.
1904 Eng. Hist. Rev. 19 642 They are to pronounce the dispensation bull itself null and void, as having been obtained by subreption.
2000 J. P. McIntyre in J. P. Beal et al. New Comm. Code Canon Law (study ed.) 118/1 We are liable to encounter subreption today with somebody applying for admission to a seminary or a religious community.
b. Scots Law. Suppression of the truth in order to obtain gifts of escheat, etc. historical after 18th cent.Contrasted with obreption n. 1(b).
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society > law > rule of law > lawlessness > specific offences > [noun] > concealment of truth > specific
subreption1680
spoliation1752
celation1881
1680 in J. Lauder Decisions Lords of Council (1759) I. 110 Alledgeances founded upon the impetrating of the gift of escheat from his Majesty by obreption expresso mendacio, or subreption celata veritate.
1752 A. McDouall Inst. Laws Scotl. II. iii. iii. i. 259 All rights of escheats..are granted by signatures or gifts from the crown, which may be stopt at their passing the seals, those being checks against subreption or obreption.
1773 A. Crosbie Duplies J. Sutherland 16 The Earl of Breadalbane never pretended to exercise any such right as that now claimed,..obtained by subreption and obreption.
1872 Trans. Royal Hist. Soc. 1 417 He [sc. the Chancellor] had an opportunity of examining the king's grants and other deeds,..and to cancel them if they appeared to be..obtained by subreption.
1910 Law Rep.: Appeal Cases 351 This gift of ultimus hæres, on which alone the Earl's claim was based, was obtained by obreption and subreption and was in itself void.
1985 Sc. Law Times (Lyon) 17/1 For Ramsgothan to have sought arms as heir-male would in the circumstances have involved subreption.
3. Philosophy. In Kantian philosophy: the confusion of sensory elements in experience with conceptual elements belonging to understanding and reason, esp. as leading to the improper application of concepts belonging to subjective experience to the objective world of things in themselves; an instance of this.
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1797 tr. J. S. Beck Princ. Crit. Philos. iii. i. 321 The sentiment of respect for the humanty [sic] within us, which, after a certain subreption, we exchange for respect for the object.
1848 J. B. Stallo Philos. of Nature ii. 203 In reasoning we aspire to the ideas of a soul, a Universe, a God; but in endeavouring to verify these aspirations, we reach our conclusion by subreption.
1887 Mind 12 446 He ought to have shown that he has not mistaken an internal impression, psychologically generated, and afterwards projected by subreption, for an objective relation directly apprehended.
1908 J. Watson Philos. Kant Explained 437 Though by a subreption we speak of it [sc. nature] as sublime, the basis of sublimity really lies in human nature.
1975 Vigiliae Christianae 29 7 I wish to avoid the fallacy of ‘subreption’; but I also wish to assert that God exists.
2003 W. Desmond Hegel's God v. 125 The sublime for Kant involves our subreption in attributing to the object what is properly attributable to us.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
† subreptionn.2
Obsolete.
= surreption n.2
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the mind > goodness and badness > wrongdoing > erring > errant conduct > [noun] > attack of
surreption1502
subreption1635
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > deception by illusion, delusion > [noun] > an instance of, illusion > leading astray > action of
surreption1502
scandalizing1575
subreption1635
1635 R. Sanderson Two Serm. S. Pauls Crosse & Grantham ii. 64 Strength of temptation, sway of passion, or other distemper or subreption incident to humane frailty.
a1658 A. Farindon LXXX Serm. (1672) II. 603 To sin by ignorance or subreption, to feel those sudden motions and perturbations, those ictus animi, those sudden blows and surprisals of the mind.
a1700 C. Ellis Script. Catechist (1738) iii. 367 By all which is not meant, that a regenerate christian, never..through ignorance, inadvertency, subreption, or sudden temptation, sinneth at all.
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