Definition of "illapse" []

• A gliding in; an immission or entrance of one thing into another. (noun)
• A sudden descent or attack. (noun)

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• "Democritus says that dreams are formed by the illapse of adventitious representations."
• "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."
• "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."