increep

English

Etymology

in- +‎ creep

Verb

increep (third-person singular simple present increeps, present participle increeping, simple past and past participle incrept)

1. (intransitive, poetic) To creep in; to make a furtive entrance.
   • 1849, Henoch Clapham, quoted in Jane Eliza Leeson, Chapters on Deacons

     First, order gone, and doores not being kept, / By baptisme heaps of prophane do rush. / With them, at length, a ministry incrept, / That with the horn God's ordinance did push.

   • 1922, Thomas Hardy, In The Small Hours:

     It seemed a thing for weeping / To find, at slumber's wane / And morning's sly increeping, / That Now, not Then, held reign.

Anagrams

• Pernice, creepin', percine