surreptitiousadj.¹

/sʌrɪpˈtɪʃəs/

Forms: Also Middle English–1500s -cious.

Etymology: < Latin surreptītius, -īcius = subreptīcius (see subreptitious adj.) + -ous suffix. Compare Old French surreptice, Italian surrettizio, Old Portuguese sorr-, surre(p)ticio.

1. Obtained by ‘surreption’, suppression of the truth, or fraudulent misrepresentation: = subreptitious adj. 1.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > goodness and badness > wrongdoing > sneakiness > sneaky action > [adjective]

surreptitious1443

surreptitial1602

surreptious1630

surreptive1633

society > morality > moral evil > lack of principle or integrity > [adjective] > dishonest > specifically of action, etc.

surreptitious1443

unhonest1583

surreptitial1602

surreptious1630

surreptive1633

cogged1781

rigged1850

1443 in H. Nicolas Proc. & Ordinances Privy Council (1835) V. 297 Þ^t þei see þ^e patentes þ^t þ^e Kyng hath graunted and see which be surrepticious.

a1712 J. Lauder Decisions (1759) II. 419 That it was surreptitious and obreptitious, containing a plain falsity.

1719 Ld. Herbert's Hen. VIII 108/1 If it shall..appear, that any such Apostolical Dispensations shall be..invalid, ineffectual, unsufficient, surreptitious or arreptitious.

1728 E. Chambers Cycl. Subreptitious or Surreptitious, a Term applied to a Letter, Licence, Patent or other Act, fraudulently obtain'd of a Superior, by concealing some Truth, which had it been known, would have prevented the Concession or Grant.

1855 H. H. Milman Hist. Lat. Christianity VI. xiv. i. 389 The Parliament declared the ordinance surreptitious, and contrary to the rights of the Bishops.

a. Taken, obtained, used, done, etc. by stealth, secretly, or ‘on the sly’; secret and unauthorized; clandestine.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > secrecy, concealment > stealthy action, stealth > [adjective] > accomplished by stealth

stolenc1400

secret1548

clandestine1566

stealed1577

backdoor1581

underhand1592

surreptitial1602

surreptitious?1615

furtive1628

surreptious1630

by1633

surreptive1633

subreptitious1641

surreptitious1645

postern1648

backstairs1663

smuggled1707

underneath1747

underhanded1806

hidlingsa1810

hole-and-corner1835

side door1862

under-cover1933

under the table1938

crafty1946

1645 J. Howell Epistolæ Ho-elianæ iii. xxxi. 112 The Hollander hath done him [sc. the King of Spain] more mischief by counterfeiting his copper coins,..bringing it in by strange surreptitious wayes, as in..hollow masts.

1661 Sir H. Vane's Politics 7 The Pagentry of his [sc. Oliver Cromwell's] surreptitious state.

1768 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. iii. 130 In order to prevent the surreptitious discharge of prisoners.

1817 S. T. Coleridge Biographia Literaria I. 265 A surreptitious act of the imagination, which..likewise supplies by a sort of subintelligitur the one central power, which renders the movement harmonious and cyclical.

1848 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair xlviii. 429 O ladies! how many of you have surreptitious milliners' bills?

1866 Mrs. H. Wood St. Martin's Eve II. i. 13 Stealing surreptitious glances at him through her veil.

1885 J. Ruskin Præterita I. iv. 13 The surreptitious enjoyments they devised.

b. Of a passage or writing: Spurious, forged. Of an edition or copy of a book: Issued without authority, ‘pirated’.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > plagiarism > [adjective] > plagiarized

surreptitious1615

pirated1705

piratical1731

plagiarized1766

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > forgery, falsification > faking of documents > [adjective]

falsec1000

Apocrypha1387

counterfeit1393

surmised?1518

apocryph1549

unauthentical1549

suborned1550

apocryphal1590

disauthentic1591

suppositive1598

supposititious1600

surreptitious1615

spurious1624

unauthentic1631

ungenuine1665

ingenuine1675

nothal1716

apocryphical1719

fabricate1755

doctored1853

1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια 316 Wee conclude that the place aboue vrged is surreptitious.

1648 R. Boyle Seraphic Love (1700) Ep. Ded. 3 To run the risk of a surreptitious Edition of a Discourse.

1729 A. Pope Dunciad (new ed.) Let. Publisher 5 A correct Edition of the Dunciad, which the many surreptitious ones have rendered so necessary.

1858 Times 29 Nov. 6/4 When they give their word that a publication is surreptitious.

1870 J. R. Lowell Among my Bks. (1873) 1st Ser. 167 Plays which they reprinted from stolen and surreptitious copies.

c. transferred. Acting by stealth or secretly; †taking by stealth, appropriating secretly (obsolete); stealthy, crafty, sly.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > secrecy, concealment > stealthy action, stealth > [adjective]

privyc1230

thiefly1395

stalkinga1400

slyc1440

insidious1545

clanculary1563

hedge-creeping1579

thievish1587

sneaking1590

tiptoe1593

peaking1595

underworking1605

stealthya1616

subtlea1616

surreptitious?1615

clancular1621

stealthful?1624

insidiary1625

worming1631

subterranean1643

clancularious1656

hugger-mugger1692

slink1792

slinking1841

instealing1844

thief-like1847

furtive1859

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > secrecy, concealment > stealthy action, stealth > [adjective] > accomplished by stealth

stolenc1400

secret1548

clandestine1566

stealed1577

backdoor1581

underhand1592

surreptitial1602

surreptitious?1615

furtive1628

surreptious1630

by1633

surreptive1633

subreptitious1641

surreptitious1645

postern1648

backstairs1663

smuggled1707

underneath1747

underhanded1806

hidlingsa1810

hole-and-corner1835

side door1862

under-cover1933

under the table1938

crafty1946

?1615 G. Chapman tr. Homer Odysses (new ed.) xxi. 296 To take, or touch with surreptitious Or violent hand, what there was left for vse.

1635 R. Brathwait tr. M. Silesio Arcadian Princesse 19 Only some surreptitious proctours were there fishing, who knew no..Law-Intergatory, but the demand of their undeserved fees.

1683 J. Barnard Theologo-historicus 12 I have not been surreptitious of whole pages together out of the Doctors printed volumnes, and appropriated them to my self without any Mark or Asterism.

1856 D. M. Mulock John Halifax III. ii. 57 The old man's look,..betraying his surreptitious curiosity.

1868 E. Edwards Life Sir W. Ralegh I. ii. 31 He organized a new expedition..with the same surreptitious countenance which had been shown to him.

1898 ‘H. S. Merriman’ Roden's Corner xxi. 223 Glancing at the clock with a surreptitious eye.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1918; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	surreptitious
释义	surreptitiousadj.¹ /sʌrɪpˈtɪʃəs/ Forms: Also Middle English–1500s -cious. Etymology: < Latin surreptītius, -īcius = subreptīcius (see subreptitious adj.) + -ous suffix. Compare Old French surreptice, Italian surrettizio, Old Portuguese sorr-, surre(p)ticio. 1. Obtained by ‘surreption’, suppression of the truth, or fraudulent misrepresentation: = subreptitious adj. 1. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > wrongdoing > sneakiness > sneaky action > [adjective] surreptitious1443 surreptitial1602 surreptious1630 surreptive1633 society > morality > moral evil > lack of principle or integrity > [adjective] > dishonest > specifically of action, etc. surreptitious1443 unhonest1583 surreptitial1602 surreptious1630 surreptive1633 cogged1781 rigged1850 1443 in H. Nicolas Proc. & Ordinances Privy Council (1835) V. 297 Þ^t þei see þ^e patentes þ^t þ^e Kyng hath graunted and see which be surrepticious. a1712 J. Lauder Decisions (1759) II. 419 That it was surreptitious and obreptitious, containing a plain falsity. 1719 Ld. Herbert's Hen. VIII 108/1 If it shall..appear, that any such Apostolical Dispensations shall be..invalid, ineffectual, unsufficient, surreptitious or arreptitious. 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. Subreptitious or Surreptitious, a Term applied to a Letter, Licence, Patent or other Act, fraudulently obtain'd of a Superior, by concealing some Truth, which had it been known, would have prevented the Concession or Grant. 1855 H. H. Milman Hist. Lat. Christianity VI. xiv. i. 389 The Parliament declared the ordinance surreptitious, and contrary to the rights of the Bishops. 2. a. Taken, obtained, used, done, etc. by stealth, secretly, or ‘on the sly’; secret and unauthorized; clandestine. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > secrecy, concealment > stealthy action, stealth > [adjective] > accomplished by stealth stolenc1400 secret1548 clandestine1566 stealed1577 backdoor1581 underhand1592 surreptitial1602 surreptitious?1615 furtive1628 surreptious1630 by1633 surreptive1633 subreptitious1641 surreptitious1645 postern1648 backstairs1663 smuggled1707 underneath1747 underhanded1806 hidlingsa1810 hole-and-corner1835 side door1862 under-cover1933 under the table1938 crafty1946 1645 J. Howell Epistolæ Ho-elianæ iii. xxxi. 112 The Hollander hath done him [sc. the King of Spain] more mischief by counterfeiting his copper coins,..bringing it in by strange surreptitious wayes, as in..hollow masts. 1661 Sir H. Vane's Politics 7 The Pagentry of his [sc. Oliver Cromwell's] surreptitious state. 1768 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. iii. 130 In order to prevent the surreptitious discharge of prisoners. 1817 S. T. Coleridge Biographia Literaria I. 265 A surreptitious act of the imagination, which..likewise supplies by a sort of subintelligitur the one central power, which renders the movement harmonious and cyclical. 1848 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair xlviii. 429 O ladies! how many of you have surreptitious milliners' bills? 1866 Mrs. H. Wood St. Martin's Eve II. i. 13 Stealing surreptitious glances at him through her veil. 1885 J. Ruskin Præterita I. iv. 13 The surreptitious enjoyments they devised. b. Of a passage or writing: Spurious, forged. Of an edition or copy of a book: Issued without authority, ‘pirated’. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > plagiarism > [adjective] > plagiarized surreptitious1615 pirated1705 piratical1731 plagiarized1766 the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > forgery, falsification > faking of documents > [adjective] falsec1000 Apocrypha1387 counterfeit1393 surmised?1518 apocryph1549 unauthentical1549 suborned1550 apocryphal1590 disauthentic1591 suppositive1598 supposititious1600 surreptitious1615 spurious1624 unauthentic1631 ungenuine1665 ingenuine1675 nothal1716 apocryphical1719 fabricate1755 doctored1853 1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια 316 Wee conclude that the place aboue vrged is surreptitious. 1648 R. Boyle Seraphic Love (1700) Ep. Ded. 3 To run the risk of a surreptitious Edition of a Discourse. 1729 A. Pope Dunciad (new ed.) Let. Publisher 5 A correct Edition of the Dunciad, which the many surreptitious ones have rendered so necessary. 1858 Times 29 Nov. 6/4 When they give their word that a publication is surreptitious. 1870 J. R. Lowell Among my Bks. (1873) 1st Ser. 167 Plays which they reprinted from stolen and surreptitious copies. c. transferred. Acting by stealth or secretly; †taking by stealth, appropriating secretly (obsolete); stealthy, crafty, sly. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > secrecy, concealment > stealthy action, stealth > [adjective] privyc1230 thiefly1395 stalkinga1400 slyc1440 insidious1545 clanculary1563 hedge-creeping1579 thievish1587 sneaking1590 tiptoe1593 peaking1595 underworking1605 stealthya1616 subtlea1616 surreptitious?1615 clancular1621 stealthful?1624 insidiary1625 worming1631 subterranean1643 clancularious1656 hugger-mugger1692 slink1792 slinking1841 instealing1844 thief-like1847 furtive1859 the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > secrecy, concealment > stealthy action, stealth > [adjective] > accomplished by stealth stolenc1400 secret1548 clandestine1566 stealed1577 backdoor1581 underhand1592 surreptitial1602 surreptitious?1615 furtive1628 surreptious1630 by1633 surreptive1633 subreptitious1641 surreptitious1645 postern1648 backstairs1663 smuggled1707 underneath1747 underhanded1806 hidlingsa1810 hole-and-corner1835 side door1862 under-cover1933 under the table1938 crafty1946 ?1615 G. Chapman tr. Homer Odysses (new ed.) xxi. 296 To take, or touch with surreptitious Or violent hand, what there was left for vse. 1635 R. Brathwait tr. M. Silesio Arcadian Princesse 19 Only some surreptitious proctours were there fishing, who knew no..Law-Intergatory, but the demand of their undeserved fees. 1683 J. Barnard Theologo-historicus 12 I have not been surreptitious of whole pages together out of the Doctors printed volumnes, and appropriated them to my self without any Mark or Asterism. 1856 D. M. Mulock John Halifax III. ii. 57 The old man's look,..betraying his surreptitious curiosity. 1868 E. Edwards Life Sir W. Ralegh I. ii. 31 He organized a new expedition..with the same surreptitious countenance which had been shown to him. 1898 ‘H. S. Merriman’ Roden's Corner xxi. 223 Glancing at the clock with a surreptitious eye. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1918; most recently modified version published online June 2022). † surreptitiousadj.² Etymology: < surreption n.², after surreptitious adj.¹ Obsolete. rare. Characterized by or of the nature of ‘surreption’; stealthily suggested to or introduced into the mind. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > keeping from knowledge > [adjective] > not evident, latent potentiala1398 latentc1475 unevidentc1475 surreptitious1534 unmanifest1535 unapparent1554 unappearing1554 unmanifested1613 inevident1614 inapparenta1631 unobvious1643 immanifest1646 latitant1646 potentional1651 implicit1658 non-apparent1658 involute1669 unexposed1702 unostensible1766 1534 T. More Treat. Passion in Wks. 1276/2 A soden surrepticious delyte, cast by the diuel into the sensual parte, is no sinne at all,..except the will..consent. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1918; most recently modified version published online March 2021). < adj.¹1443adj.²1534
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