obreption

English

Etymology

From Latin obreptio, from obrepo, obreptum (“to creep up to”), from ob (see prefix ob-) + repo (“to creep”).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /əbˈɹɛpʃən/, /ɒbˈɹɛpʃən/

Noun

obreption (plural obreptions)

  1. (obsolete) The act of creeping upon with secrecy or by surprise.
    • 1678, R[alph] Cudworth, The True Intellectual System of the Universe: The First Part; wherein All the Reason and Philosophy of Atheism is Confuted; and Its Impossibility Demonstrated, London: […] Richard Royston, […], →OCLC:
      […] the irregularities of the first motions , violent assaults , and importunities of temptations , sudden incursions , and obreptions, sins of mere ignorance and inadvertency […]
  2. (Scots law, obsolete) Act of obtaining gifts of escheat by fraud or surprise.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “obreption”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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