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From: "Kathy Fenton" <>
Subject: Re: [MFLR] Miles Standish
Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2007 16:05:56 -0500
References: <31FAE61F.1665B254.0A938636@cs.com>


Thanks for answering. Guess we all learned something new today! :-)

----- Original Message -----
From: <>
To: <>
Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2007 3:03 PM
Subject: Re: [MFLR] Miles Standish


> Usually spelled "surreptious" but in the 17th century there was no
> standard spelling, so "surruptiously" would be all right, but even there I
> mis-remembered Standish's version, which is "surruptuously."
>
> It is the adverbial form of "surreption." That means, in this context,
> "Suppression of truth or fact for the purpose of obtaining something, or
> the action of obtaining something in this way; more generally, fraudulent
> misrepresentation, or other underhand or stealthy proceeding." (from the
> Oxford English Dictionary).
>
> It can apparently also be found as an abbreviated form of surreptitious,
> although I have never seen it anywhere except in Standish's will.
> "Surreptitious" does not have that exact meaning in reference to legal
> action.
>
> - jeremy
>
>
>
>
> "Kathy Fenton" <> wrote:
>
>>Yes, THAT one I knew! And "surreptitiously" makes sense in the context,
>>so
>>perhaps "surruptiously" is some sort of archaic form of it (I say perhaps
>>it's archaic because if it was in the will of Myles Standish, it's
>>probably
>>not a new word...so it being a new word is probably not why I can't find
>>it
>>in my dictionary...)??
>>
>>Since the implication has already been put out there that it might be a
>>word
>>one would question, and it doesn't seem to be in the dictionary, it would
>>just be nice to know for sure what it means as well. :-)
>>
>>Thanks.
>>
>>Kathy
>>
>>----- Original Message -----
>>From: "GMF" <>
>>To: <>
>>Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2007 2:21 PM
>>Subject: Re: [MFLR] Miles Standish
>>
>>
>>> Surreptitiously is a word and I surmise my illustrious forebear may have
>>> misspelled it. It means secretly.
>>>
>>>
>>> GMF
>>> A word in a dictionary is very much like a car in a mammoth motorshow
>>> full
>>> of potential, but temporarily inactive. -Anthony Burgess
>>>
>>>
>>> -- "Kathy Fenton" <> wrote:
>>> Are you sure "surruptiously" is a word? And if so, what does it mean?
>>> It's
>>> not in my unabridged dictionary...
>>>
>>> Thanks.
>>>
>>> Kathy
>>>
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