subreptive, a.
(səbˈrɛptɪv)
[ad. late L. subreptīvus, f. subrept-, pa. ppl. stem of subripĕre. Cf. OF. subreptif.]
Surreptitious; spec. in Kantian Philos. (see quot. 1877).
| 1611 Cotgr., Subreptif, subreptiue. 1877 E. Caird Philos. Kant i. 151 ‘Many conceptions’, he [Kant] says, ‘arise in our minds from some obscure suggestion of experience, and are developed..without any clear consciousness of the experience that suggests or the reason that developes them. These conceptions..may be called subreptive’. |