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a. [ overturning, fr. &unr_; to turn up or over; &unr_; + &unr_; too turn. ] Overthrowing; defeating; -- applied to Plato's refutative dialogues. Enfield. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. arripere, arreptum, to seize, snatch; ad + rapere to snatch. See Rapacious. ] The act of taking away. [ Obs. ] “This arreption was sudden.” Bp. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. arreptitius. ] Snatched away; seized or possessed, as a demoniac; raving; mad; crack-brained. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Odd, arreptitious, frantic extravagances. Howell. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. correptio, fr. corripere to seize. ] Chiding; reproof; reproach. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Angry, passionate correption being rather apt to provoke, than to amend. Hammond. [ 1913 Webster ]

imp. & p. p. of Creep. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. direptio, fr. diripere to tear asunder, plunder; di- = dis- + rapere to seize and carry off. ] The act of plundering, despoiling, or snatching away. [ R. ] Speed. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Characterized by direption. [ R. ] Encyc. Dict. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. With plundering violence; by violent injustice. [ R. ] Strype. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. erepere to creep out; e out + repere to creep. ] A creeping forth. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. ereptio, fr. eripere to snatch away; e out + rapere to snatch. ] A snatching away. [ Obs. ] Cockeram. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. irrepere, irreptum, to creep in; pref. ir- in + repere to creep. ] Surreptitious; spurious. [ Obs. ] Dr. Castell (1673). [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. mammo`qreptos; ma`mma grandmother + tre`pein to nourish. ] A child brought up by its grandmother; a spoiled child. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

O, you are a more mammothrept in judgment. B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. obreptio, fr. obrepere, obreptum, to creep up to; ob (see Ob-) + repere to creep. ] 1. The act of creeping upon with secrecy or by surprise. [ Obs. ] Cudworth. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Scots Law) The obtaining gifts of escheat by fraud or surprise. Bell. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. obreptitus. See Obreption. ] Done or obtained by surprise; with secrecy, or by concealment of the truth. [ R. ] Cotgrave. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. prorepere, proreptum, to creep forth; pro + repere. ] A creeping on. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. &unr_;, fr. &unr_; to turn forward, to urge on. ] Adapted to persuade; hortatory; persuasive. [ Obs. ] Bp. Ward. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. reptans, -antis, p. pr. of reptare, v. intens. from repere to creep. See Reptile. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. (Bot.) Same as Repent. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) Creeping; crawling; -- said of reptiles, worms, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL. ] (Zool.) A division of gastropods; the Pectinibranchiata. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. reptatio, from reptare: cf. F. reptation. ] (Zool.) The act of creeping. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Zool.) Creeping. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ F. reptile, L. reptilis, fr. repere, reptum, to creep; cf. Lith. reploti; perh. akin to L. serpere. Cf. Serpent. ] 1. Creeping; moving on the belly, or by means of small and short legs. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Hence: Groveling; low; vulgar; as, a reptile race or crew; reptile vices. [ 1913 Webster ]

There is also a false, reptile prudence, the result not of caution, but of fear. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

And dislodge their reptile souls
From the bodies and forms of men. Coleridge. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. (Zool.) An animal that crawls, or moves on its belly, as snakes, or by means of small, short legs, as lizards, and the like. [ 1913 Webster ]

An inadvertent step may crush the snail
That crawls at evening in the public path;
But he that has humanity, forewarned,
Will tread aside, and let the reptile live. Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) One of the Reptilia, or one of the Amphibia. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The amphibians were formerly classed with Reptilia, and are still popularly called reptiles, though much more closely allied to the fishes. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A groveling or very mean person. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL. ] (Zool.) A class of air-breathing oviparous vertebrates, usually covered with scales or bony plates. The heart generally has two auricles and one ventricle. The development of the young is the same as that of birds. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ It is nearly related in many respects to Aves, or birds. The principal existing orders are Testidunata or Chelonia (turtles), Crocodilia, Lacertilla (lizards), Ophidia (serpents), and Rhynchocephala; the chief extinct orders are Dinosauria, Theremorpha, Mosasauria, Pterosauria, Plesiosauria, Ichtyosauria. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Belonging to the reptiles. [ 1913 Webster ]

Reptilian age (Geol.), that part of geological time comprising the Triassic, Jurassic, and Cretaceous periods, and distinguished as that era in which the class of reptiles attained its highest expansion; -- called also the Secondary or Mezozoic age. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) One of the Reptilia; a reptile. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl.; sing. Streptobracterium /sing>. [ NL., fr. Gr. &unr_; pliant, bent + E. & NL. bacteria. ] (Biol.) A so-called variety of bacterium, consisting in reality of several bacteria linked together in the form of a chain. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n.; pl. Streptococci [ NL., fr. Gr. &unr_; pliant, curved + &unr_; a grain, seed. ] (Biol.) A long or short chain of micrococci, more or less curved. [ 1913 Webster ]

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‖n. pl. [ NL., fr. Gr. &unr_; curved + &unr_; a sinew. ] (Zool.) An extensive division of gastropod Mollusca in which the loop or visceral nerves is twisted, and the sexes separate. It is nearly to equivalent to Prosobranchiata. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL., fr. Gr. &unr_; pliant, bent + &unr_; a hair. ] (Biol.) A genus of bacilli occurring of the form of long, smooth and apparently branched threads, either straight or twisted. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. subreptio, fr. subripere, subreptum, to snatch or take away secretly: cf. F. subreption. See Surreptitious. ] The act of obtaining a favor by surprise, or by unfair representation through suppression or fraudulent concealment of facts. Bp. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. subreptitius. See Surreptitious. ] Surreptitious. [ Obs. ] -- Sub`rep*ti"tious*ly adv. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]

a. [ L. subreptivus. ] Surreptitious. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. surreptio, or subreptio. Cf. Subreption. ] 1. The act or process of getting in a surreptitious manner, or by craft or stealth. [ 1913 Webster ]

Fame by surreption got
May stead us for the time, but lasteth not. B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A coming unperceived or suddenly. [ 1913 Webster ]