Usage examples (8)

• Democritus says that dreams are formed by the illapse of adventitious representations.
• Metrodorus, that it is a forcible illapse of the sun upon clouds which makes them to sparkle as fire.
• 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.
• 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...