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REP'TILE, a. [L. reptilis, from repo, to creep, Gr. See Creep.]

1. Creeping; moving on the belly, or with many small feet.

2. Groveling; low; vulgar; as a reptile race or crew; reptile vices.

REP'TILE, n.

1. An animal that moves on its belly, or by means of small short legs, as earth-worms, caterpillars, snakes and the like.

In zoology, the reptiles constitute an order of the class Amphibian, including all such as are furnished with limbs or articulated extremities, as tortoises, lizards and frogs.

2. A groveling or very mean person; a term of contempt.
1913 Definition
Reptile (reptile)
a.(r?p"t?l;277)
Rep"tile
[F. reptile, L. reptilis, fr. repere, reptum, to creep; cf. Lith. reploti; perh. akin to L. serpere. Cf. Serpent.]
  1. Creeping; moving on the belly, or by means of small and short legs.
  2. Hence: Groveling; low; vulgar; as, a reptile race or crew; reptile vices.

    There is also a false, reptile prudence, the result not of caution, but of fear. Burke.

    And dislodge their reptile souls
    From the bodies and forms of men.
    Coleridge.

  3. An animal that crawls, or moves on its belly, as snakes,, or by means of small, short legs, as lizards, and the like.

    An inadvertent step may crush the snail
    That crawls at evening in the public path;
    But he that has humanity, forewarned,
    Will tread aside, and let the reptile live.
    Cowper.

  4. One of the Reptilia, or one of the Amphibia.

    * The amphibians were formerly classed with Reptilia, and are still popularly called reptiles, though much more closely allied to the fishes.

  5. A groveling or very mean person.

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