illapse
Definitions
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- verb To pass, glide, or slide: usually followed by into.
- noun A gliding in or into; entrance as by permeation; influx: used especially of the descent of the Holy Spirit.
- noun Inspiration; divine influx.
- noun A falling on; onset.
Examples
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Democritus says that dreams are formed by the illapse of adventitious representations.
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And everything that moved is a body; and the voice moves, and having its illapse upon smooth places is reflected, as when a ball is cast against a wall it rebounds.
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Plato and the Stoics introduce divination as a godlike enthusiasm, the soul itself being of a divine constitution, and this prophetic faculty being inspiration, or an illapse of the divine knowledge into man; and so likewise they account for interpretation by dreams.
Note
The word 'illapse' comes from the Latin 'illapsus', meaning "a falling in".
