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▪ I. subreption1|səbˈrɛpʃən|
[ad. L. subreptio, -ōnem, n. of action f. subripĕre (var. surr-), f. sub- sub- 25 + rapĕre to snatch. Cf. F. subreption, Sp. subrepcion, Pg. subrepção and see surreption.]
a. Eccl. Law. The suppression of the truth or concealment of facts with a view to obtaining a faculty, dispensation, etc. (Opposed to obreption.)
1600W. Watson Decacordon (1602) 343 [The bulls] were procured either merily by subreption, or..false information. 1644Bp. Hall Modest Offer (1660) 9 Lest there should be any subreption in this Sacred business, it is Ordered, that these Ordinations should be no other than solemn. 1706tr. Dupin's Eccl. Hist. 16th C. II. iii. xx. 361 Having a Power of enquiring into all Subreptions, Obreptions, or defects of Intention. 1728Chambers Cycl. s.v., Subreption differs from Obreption, in that Obreption is a false Expression of the Quality of a Thing or Fact, &c. And Subreption, a want of Expression. 1761Challoner in E. Burton Life (1909) II. xxiv. 26 Purely in consideration of your request (tho' I apprehended he had obtained it by subreption) I consented to give him those faculties. 1876tr. Hergenröther's Cath. Ch. & Chr. State II. 160 His rescript..may have been obtained..by obreption..and by subreption. 1894Month Mar. 391 If in a petition for a dispensation..it is the truth that is suppressed..there is said to be subreption.
b. Sc. Law. The act of obtaining gifts of escheat by suppression of the truth.
1752McDouall Inst. Laws Scot. II. iii. iii. i. 259 All rights of escheats..are granted by signatures or gifts from the crown, which may be stopt at their passing the seals, those being checks against subreption or obreption, i.e. their being obtained by concealing the truth, or expressing a falshood. 1838W. Bell Dict. Law Scot., Subreption, the obtaining gifts of escheat, &c. by concealing the truth.
c. A fallacious or deceptive representation; an inference derived from such a misrepresentation.
1865J. H. Stirling Sir W. Hamilton 47 Hamilton has long been aware of the inconveniences of sense. What are called its subreptions, its mistakes, blunders, errors [etc.]. 1877Winchell Reconcil. Sci. & Relig. ix. 259 This form of expression is inexact, and opens the way to logical subreptions and other fallacious procedures. 1892Independent (N.Y.) 21 July, This remark about ‘climbing from a lower estate to a higher’, is one of those neat little subreptions which sentimental recruits employ to deceive themselves. 1906Hibbert Jrnl. July 793 There is a subreption also in the use of the term ‘thought’; it truly refers to thought as a psychological process, but is taken as if it referred to thought as a metaphysical fact.
▪ II. † suˈbreption2
= surreption2.
1632Sanderson Serm. (1674) II. 18 Miscarrying through his own negligence, incogitancy, or other subreption. 1634― Two Serm. ii. (1635) 64 Strength of temptation, sway of passion, or other distemper or subreption incident to humane frailty. 1640― Serm. (1674) II. 144 We..break with him oftentimes through humane frailty and subreption. a1658A. Farindon Serm. (1672) II. 603 To sin by ignorance or subreption, to feel those sudden motions and perturbations, those ictus animi, those sudden blows and surprisals of the mind. |