Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- 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.
- To pass, glide, or slide: usually followed by into.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A gliding in; an immisson or entrance of one thing into another; also, a sudden descent or attack.
- intransitive verb To fall or glide; to pass; -- usually followed by
into .
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- noun A gliding in; an
immission orentrance of one thing into another. - noun A sudden descent or attack.
Etymologies
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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.
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Metrodorus, that it is a forcible illapse of the sun upon clouds which makes them to sparkle as fire.
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The first saving illapse from God upon the hearts of the elect is the Holy
The Doctrine of the Saints��� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed 1616-1683 1966
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There is, indeed, no gracious influence from above, no illapse of light, life, love, or grace upon our hearts, but proceedeth in such a dispensation.
Of Communion with God the Father, Son and Holy Ghost 1616-1683 1965
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[339] Actual grace is an illapse of divine influence and assistance, working in and by the soul any spiritual act or duty whatsoever, without any pre-existence unto that act or continuance after it, “God working in us, both to will and to do.”
Of Communion with God the Father, Son and Holy Ghost 1616-1683 1965
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Word of God; the nature of the illapse which the Spirit from on high makes on the spirit and faculties of the man.
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You are, perhaps unconsciously, expecting some miraculous illapse of heavenly power and brightness into your soul; something apart from divine truth, and from the working of
she commented on the word illapse
Rare intr. v., To fall, glide, or slip in.
August 6, 2008
malechi commented on the word illapse
"What moves thee, if the senses stir not? Light/Moves thee from Heaven, spontaneous, self-inform'd;/Or, likelier, gliding down with swift illapse/By will divine."
--Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy
Hmm, gliding into something.... I recall driving a Volkswagen on a gusty winter night in upstate New York and gliding off the road into a snowbank. Car, passenger and driver were unharmed in this illapse.
January 5, 2009
qms commented on the word illapse
Take care you not nurture that weed
And sicken perhaps
From such an illapse.
'Twould be a most ill lapse indeed.
August 20, 2015