arreptitiousとは 意味・読み方・使い方

形容詞

arreptitious (comparative more arreptitious, superlative most arreptitious)

1. Possessed; raving; isolated from reality.
   • 1631, John Mayer, A Commentarie Vpon All the Epistles of the Apostle Pavl, Being fourteen‎:

     He denieth to have received the spirit of the world, that is as Anselme hath it, an arreptitious spirit, called Python, to divine conjecture

2. (Can we verify this sense?) Taken away; also sneaked in surreptitiously.[2]