Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Creeping in; stealthily introduced; surreptitious.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Surreptitious; spurious.
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- adjective obsolete
surreptitious ;spurious
Etymologies
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Latin irrepere, irreptum, to creep in; prefix ir- in + repere to creep.
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Examples
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It is therefore a mean angle of 90 and 60, which is 75, because it is more than 60, and less than 90, approximately from 60 to 90, and from 90 to 60, with equal generation in each irreptitious approximation, therefore meeting in 75, and which is the mean angle of the quadrant.
A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II (of II) Augustus De Morgan 1838
whichbe commented on the word irreptitious
Creeping stealthily.
May 16, 2008