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(te-STOOD-in-ayt)

adjective:	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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