a. Obs. [Shortened form of SURREPTITIOUS a.1, or directly f. SURREPTION1: cf. suppositious.] Surreptitious. So † Surreptiously adv., surreptitiously.
1573. Reg. Privy Council Scot., II. 318. The said signature … is … impetrat surreptiouslie. Ibid. (1587), IV. 173. [The said Bishop] hes of lait … surreptiouslie purchast letters of discharge.
1630. Ussher, Lett. (1686), 430. Whether it carrieth not with it a powerful Non obstante to that surreptious Grant.
1642. Chas. I., Answ. Proposals Ho. Parl., 19. Any surreptiously gotten Command of the King.
