reptitious

comparative more reptitious · superlative most reptitious

1. obsoleteSynonym of reptile: creeping, crawling.

   Reptitious, ſtealing or creeping on by degrees.

   [1658, Edward Phillips, compiler, “Reptitious”, in The New World of English Words: Or, A General Dictionary: […], London: […] E. Tyler, for Nath[aniel] Brook […], →OCLC, column 2

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   Reptile or Reptitious, that creeps; or, by privy means, gets to high estate.

   1661, Thomas Blount, Glossographia, 2nd ed., s.v. "Reptile or Reptitious"

   Some Serpents are reptitious, creep on the Belly, and some have Feet.

   1742, Charles Owen, An Essay towards a Natural History of Serpents, page 2

   Synonyms: reptant, reptatorial, reptatory, reptilious, reptile

2. obsoleteSynonym of reptilian: reptilelike, (figuratively) cold-blooded, treacherous.

   Reptile or Reptitious, that creeps; or, by privy means, gets to high estate.

   1661, Thomas Blount, Glossographia, 2nd ed., s.v. "Reptile or Reptitious"

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   Whether [dysentery] proceeds from... some Occult cause, no venomous Creature living [in Ireland] to suck that which may be thought... well distributed amongst reptitious Animals, I shall not determine.

   1675, Edmund Borlase, The Reduction of Ireland to the Crown of England, page 172

   Synonyms: reptilian, viperish, viperous, alexithymic, apathistical, clinical, dull, phlegmatic