a. [f. L. testūdine-us, f. TESTUDO, testūdin-em: see -EOUS.]

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  1.  Resembling the shell of a tortoise, or a testudo.

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1656.  Blount, Glossogr., Testudineous,… belonging to, or bowing like the shell of a tortoise, vaulted. Also pertaining to that ancient war-engine called Testudo.

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  Hence in Bailey, Johnson, and later Dicts.

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  2.  Slow, dilatory, like the pace of a tortoise.

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a. 1652.  Brome, Love-sick Crt., III. iii. With a countenance dejected, And testudineous pace.

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1860.  O. W. Holmes, Prof. Breakf.-t., ii. I don’t think there is one of our boarders quite so testudineous as I am.

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