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testudinate (te-STOOD-in-ayt) adjective, also testudinal or testudinarian

   1. Slow-moving, like a turtle.

   2. Curved like the carapace (shell) of a turtle; vaulted.

noun

   A turtle.

[From Late Latin testudinatus, from Latin testudo (tortoise).]

   "President Bill Clinton, that testudinate jogger who would be Our Leader,
   was soundly thrashed in the off-year elections ..."
   Robert Emmett Tyrrell, Jr., The Continuing Crisis, American Spectator,
   Jan 1994.

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