Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A calculated misrepresentation through concealment of the facts.
- n. An inference drawn from such a misrepresentation.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The act of obtaining a favor by surprise or by suppression or fraudulent concealment of facts.
- n. In Scots law, the obtaining of gifts of escheat, etc., by concealing the truth. Compare obreption, 2.
Wiktionary
- n. The act of obtaining a favour by surprise, or by unfair representation through suppression or fraudulent concealment of facts.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The act of obtaining a favor by surprise, or by unfair representation through suppression or fraudulent concealment of facts.
Etymologies
- Latin subreptio, from subripere, subreptum, to snatch or take away secretly: compare French subreption. See surreptitious. (Wiktionary)
- Late Latin subreptiō, subreptiōn-, from Latin, theft, from subreptus, past participle of surripere, subripere, to take away secretly; see surreptitious. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“The argument Kant offers is excruciating, but the essential point is that, just as the idea of the soul involved the subreption of the hypostatized consciousness, so too, the idea of the ens realissimum is generated by both a subrepted principle and a hypostatization.”
“The term “subreption” refers to a fallacy that specifically involves the surreptitious substitution of different kinds of terms and concepts.”
“Moreover, these dispensations are supposed to be given motu proprio and with certain knowledge, from which it follows that they are not vitiated by obreption or by subreption.”
“For the effect of subreption on the validity of grants see Rescripts.”
“In its effects subreption is equivalent to obreption (q.v.), which consists in a positive allegation of what is false.”
“For this, and in general for the information which should accompany the petition, in order that a dispensation be valid, see below apropos of obreption and subreption in rescripts of dispensation.”
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy
“When a supplica is affected (in a material point) by obreption or subreption it becomes necessary to ask for a so-called”
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy
“Rescripts obtained by obreption or subreption are null and void when the motive cause of the rescript is affected by them.”
“If, on the other hand, silence had been observed concerning something that essentially changed the state of the case, it is called subreption.”
“And after having in this way, quietly and by subreption, introduced this its definition of the term "_bourgeoisie_," the indictment goes on to formulate its final charge as follows:”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘subreption’.
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phrontistery-s
from phrontistery.info
syzygy, systyle, systematology, systatic, syssitia, syrtic, systaltic, syrt, syrinx, syphilomania, syphilology, syntrierarch and 1593 more...
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Most Obscure Words
acatalectic, acosmism, acuate, acuminate, adscititious, adytum, akratisma, alieniloquy, allelomorph, allochiria, allodium, alnage and 620 more...
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kalidas's Words
crepuscular, mellifluous, ephemeral, diaphanous, zeitgeist, geisterfahrer, infinite, eternal, idyllic, azure, reminiscent, oblivion and 521 more...
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ADW2
nudnik, temper, intercalate, cleave, scowl, chapfallen, malapropos, disport, annals, paean, paradisiacal, whet and 362 more...
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learning
A list of words whose meanings I am learning, either because a) I don't know the meaning b) I know the meaning, but could stand to better appreciate certain inflections or secondary meanings or c) ...
louche, educe, loam, cob, sclerotic, palliate, axial, syndicalist, ecumenical, sally, fatuous, parvenu and 1381 more...
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originally started as an attempt to collect words I found visually and auditorially beautiful, as well as psychically evocative, this has become nothing more than a grab bag of word curiosities, a ...
bergamot, jambalaya, bee's knees, heliotrope, hosanna, gamboge, aureole, filial, madrigal, multilingual, sacrosanct, sojourn and 1072 more...
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Wordie/Wordnik Curio Cabinet
Oddments culled from my "main" lists that belong in a display cabinet of their own, plus sundry other curiosities. :-)
zeugma, ziggurat, xiphoid, xeric, whizgigging, whangdoodle, viviparous, vivific, vinolent, verjuice, vellicate, velleity and 1193 more...
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2007bee-r03
antioxidant, rambla, trafficking, volplane, sluice, jettison, insomnolence, egyptiac, claque, provincial, satisfice, trumpery and 95 more...
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rememberers
prolix, ageusia, animadversion, anodyne, antic, arabesque, beadle, brachymetropia, colophon, desquamation, diaphoresis, diegesis and 3248 more...
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jmjarmstrong's list
Words that I used to know.
geloscopy, hunker, willy nilly, harum scarum, whacko, meh, nork, misunderestimate, atrabiliousness, luftmensch, auxanometer, hyperhedonia and 1948 more...
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Misdirector's Cut
Hey...
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...sneaky, legerdemain, flimflam, unwittingly, clandestine, hornswoggle, sleveen, subversion, espionage, incognito, subreption, gank and 147 more...
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Love
Words that help me understand others:
autochthonous, euphemism, imbricate, exogamy, animism, intersubjective, deontology, diminution, imperturbable, torpor, replete, allosteric and 14 more...
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De minimis non curat lex
seisin, tort, fee simple, fee entail, feodum, fief, socage, serjeanty, escheat, allodial, scutage, demesne and 11 more...
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sherriberean's list
jots, tittles, and all the main components
Tweets
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jmjarmstrong JM is very open about subreption. Mar 23, 2011
reesetee 1. A calculated misrepresentation through concealment of the facts.
2. An inference drawn from such a misrepresentation. Aug 20, 2007