illapse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˈlæps/
rhymes: -æps
Forms: form: illapses
Etymology: From Latin illapsus (“a falling, gliding, or flowing in; an irruption”); from illābor (“to fall, to slide”) + -tus (“suffix forming action nouns from verbs”).
Senses: examples: text: The illapſe of some pre-existent or animating formative Principle, which we may well call the Soul or Anima, that as in the Generation of Mankind by ordinary procreation we ſee the formative power is ſome refined active Spirit or Soul in ſemine deliteſcens, that faſhions the Matter, and actuates it with vital ſenſible Faculties and Operations; ſo the illapſe of ſome ſuch active ſubſtance or powerful Being, illapſing into Matter and uniting with it, might form it into that conſtitution which it enjoyed.
ref: 1677, Matthew Hale, The Primitive Origination of Mankind: Considered and Examined According to the Light of Nature, London: Printed by William Godbid, for William Shrowsbery […] , →OCLC, page 320:
text: Now it is certain, that no Man was more poſitive, as to the Conſecration of the Holy Euchariſt by the Illapſe of the Holy Spirit, than St. Chrysoſtom; and therefore the Reaſon, why he did not come into the Meaſures of Theophilus, muſt be, that he was not convinced, that Origen was guilty of that Error, which Theophilus, and his Friends, imputed to him.
ref: 1714, John Johnson, The Unbloody Sacrifice, and Altar Unvail'd and Supported; in which the Nature of the Eucharist is Explain'd According to the Sentiments of the Christian Church in the Four First Centuries, London: Printed for Robert Knaplock, at the Bishop's-Head, in St. Paul's Church-Yard, →OCLC, page 181:
text: […] I ſhall now proceed to consider what the Ancients taught concerning the Deſcent, or Illapſe of the Holy Spirit upon the Symbols, or upon the Communicants in this Holy Solemnity. […] Why ſhould the Illapſe of the Holy Spirit be ſuppoſed to work any greater, or any other Change in the Elements of the Euchariſt, than in the Waters of Baptiſm?
ref: 1737, Daniel [Cosgrove] Waterland, A Review of the Doctrine of the Eucharist, as Laid Down in Scripture and Antiquity, 2nd corr. edition, London: Printed for W. Innys and R. Manby at the West End of St. Paul's, and Corn. Crownfield at Cambridge, →OCLC, pages 380 and 410–411:
text: Some indeed pretend to feel the illapſe of the holy ſpirit; and to fix the moment, when it enters the heart.
ref: 1804, William Gilpin, Sermons Preached to a Country Congregation: To which are Added, a Few Hints for Sermons; Intended Chiefly for the Use of the Younger Clergy, 4th edition, volume I, London: Printed for T[homas] Cadell, and W. Davies, in the Strand, →OCLC, page 346:
text: They say no graces; but when their meal is on the table, they sit silent and in a thoughtful posture for a short time, waiting for an illapſe of the Spirit. If they are not moved to make any ejaculation, they begin to eat without more ado.
ref: 1807 April, Francis Jeffrey, “A Portraiture of Quakerism, as Taken from a View of the Moral Education, Discipline, Peculiar Customs, Religious Principles, Political and Civil Economy, and Character, of the Society of Friends. By Thomas Clarkson, M.A. Author of several Essays on the subject of the Slave Trade. 8vo. 3 vols. London: 1806 [book review]”, in Contributions to the Edinburgh Review. […] In Three Volumes, 2nd edition, volume III, London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, published 1846, →OCLC, pages 385–386:
glosses: A gliding in; an immission or entrance of one thing into another.
examples: text: […] That as a piece of Iron red hot by reaſon of the Illapſe of the fire into it appears all over like fire; ſo the Souls of the Bleſſed by this Illapſe of the Divine Eſſence into them ſhall be all over Divine.
ref: 1683, John Norris, An Idea of Happiness, in a Letter to a Friend: Enquiring wherein the Greatest Happiness Attainable by Man in this Life does Consist, London: Printed for James Norris at the Kings Arms without Temple Bar, →OCLC, page 22:
text: […] Thus Life redoubles, and is oft preſerv'd, / By the bold Swimmer, in the ſwift Illapſe / Of Accident diſaſtrous. […]
ref: 1727, James Thomson, Summer: A Poem, London: Printed for J. Millan, →OCLC, page 50:
glosses: A sudden descent or attack.