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Great dictionary word, but does not seem ever to have caught on. Only use I can find is from a scholar writing in 1927, who uses it in a sentence composed of various classic words from the Glossographia. Even if we accept that as a use (which I would rather not), still need two more. -- Visviva 12:09, 21 September 2009 (UTC)

I think we should accept that use. Unfortunately, I can’t access the page that the quotation’s on; could you add it? † ﴾^(u):Raifʻhār ^(t):Doremítzwr﴿ 02:46, 26 September 2009 (UTC)

Enjoy: Citations:celeripedean. I'll grant, if we had two real citations I wouldn't be inclined to stand on principle. But I don't really think this rises above the level of an example sentence in a dictionary (or a weird-words book). -- Visviva

Wow. Yeah, I can kinda see whatcha mean there. That was pretty heavy going. It reminds me of L. J. D. Richardson’s 1947 humorous essay A Little Classics Is a Dangerous Thing (the entirety of which I managed to copy to a .txt file, comparing two snippets and the text quoted by the search engine), whose topic is the pedant’s zeal but which features numerous mis-pluralisations of (mainly Latinate) words and other such errors. Here’s a representative example:

Too often you will hear people saying ‘octopuses’ when they should, of course, have said ‘octopi’ : and we fear that to use the forms ‘platypi’ and ‘rhinoceri’ is only to incur the reproach of pedantry. The times are out of joint : we worship at the shrine of universal education, but this ideal is the very antipode of the actual fact. Slipshod and inaccurate utterance pervades every strata of society.

:-D † ﴾^(u):Raifʻhār ^(t):Doremítzwr﴿ 05:00, 26 September 2009 (UTC)

BTW, I think that it’s incorrectly defined as we have it; it’s an adjective, not a noun. The noun would be *(deprecated template usage) celeriped or something; there exists a similar word — celeripede — also claiming descent from Latin celeripēs (“swift-footed”), but in its case viâ the French céléripede. † ﴾^(u):Raifʻhār ^(t):Doremítzwr﴿ 05:05, 26 September 2009 (UTC)

RFV failed, replaced with {{only in|{{in appendix|Words found only in dictionaries}}}}. —Ruakh_TALK 23:35, 17 December 2009 (UTC)