subreption

English

Etymology

From Latin subreptio, from subripere, subreptum (“to snatch or take away secretly”). Compare French subreption. See surreptitious, surreptition.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sʌbˈɹɛpʃən/

Noun

subreption (countable and uncountable, plural subreptions)

  1. (historical) Under Roman law, the act of giving false testimony.
  2. (Catholicism) The act of obtaining a favour or grant by unfair representation through suppression or fraudulent concealment of facts.
    • 1644, Bishop Joseph Hall, A Modest Offer:
      lest there should be any subreption in this sacred business, it is ordered, that these Ordinations should be no other than solemn
  3. (Scots law) The act of obtaining a gift or favor by concealing the truth.
  4. (philosophy) The conflation of a condition under which it is possible to intuitively understand an object, and a condition under which an object can possibly exist; the confusion of knowing with experiencing.

Coordinate terms

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “subreption”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

French

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Noun

subreption f (plural subreptions)

  1. subreption

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