testudineousadj.
/tɛstjuːˈdɪniːəs/ 1. Resembling the shell of a tortoise, or a testudo.In Bailey, Johnson, and later dictionaries.
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1656 T. Blount Glossographia Testudineous,..belonging to, or bowing like the shell of a tortoise, vaulted. Also pertaining to that ancient war-engine called Testudo.
2. Slow, dilatory, like the pace of a tortoise.
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a1652 R. Brome Love-sick Court iii. iii. 133 in Five New Playes (1659) With a countenance dejected, And testudineous pace.
1860 O. W. Holmes Professor at Breakfast-table ii. 35 I don't think there is one of our boarders quite so testudineous as I am.
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