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発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ɹəpˈtɪʃəs/
• (米国発音) IPA: /ɹɛpˈtɪʃəs/
• 韻: -ɪʃəs

形容詞

reptitious (comparative more reptitious, superlative most reptitious)

1. (obsolete) Synonym of reptile: creeping, crawling.

   Synonyms: reptant, reptatorial, reptatory, reptilious

   • [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:

     Reptitious, ſtealing or creeping on by degrees.]

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

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

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

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

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

   Synonyms: reptilian, viperish, viperous; see also Thesaurus:alexithymic, Thesaurus:reptilelike, Thesaurus:treacherous

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

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

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

     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.

参照

• “† reptitious, adj.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009.