Citations:illapse

Noun

1. A gliding in; an immission or entrance of one thing into another.
2. A sudden descent or attack.

Verb

1. To fall or glide; to pass; usually followed by into.
   • 1791, Virgil with [C. Davidson, transl.], The Works of Virgil, Translated into English Prose, as Near the Original as the Different Idioms of the Latin and English Languages will Allow. For the Use of Schools, as Well as of Private Gentlemen, Edinburgh: Printed for A. Guthrie, No. 25, South Bridge Street, →OCLC, page 308:

     The Latins from every quarter gather, now that opportunity of a battle is offered, and the warrior-god hath illapſed on their minds.

   • 1830, Joseph John Gurney, quoting Amelius, Biblical Notes and Dissertations, Chiefly Intended to Confirm and Illustrate the Doctrine of the Deity of Christ; with some Remarks on the Practical Importance of that Doctrine, London: C. J. G. & F. Rivington, →OCLC, pages 161–162:

     [T]hat Barbarian moreover (meaning the apostle John) is of opinion, that the Word was established in the order and dignity of the beginning – that he was with God and was God – that by him all things were entirely made, and all that is life, or hath life or existence, was produced – that he illapsed into bodies, clothed himself in flesh, and appeared as man; so however that, even then, he displayed the dignity of his nature – and that after he departed from this world, he was again deified and was God, even as he was before his reduction into the body, the flesh, and the man.

   • 1837 November, “On Female Beauty and Its Adjuncts”, in The Lady's Magazine and Museum, volume XI, [London]: Dobbs & Co., →OCLC, page 339:

     It is easy to conceive all that a monotonous and enervating life, illapsed in indolence, tends to produce amongst the inmates of the seraglio; they are kept in profound ignorance of every thing, and their existence is really that of "children of a larger growth."