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prettygoodwordillapse (IL-ahps) - v., to glide or flow into another thing, to immerse.
Also a noun, the act of -- both usually followed by "into". The main sense seems to be that it's a gentle entrance of one body into another, at least in English -- etymologically, it's the opposite of elapse, to flow away. From Latin illapsus, past participle of illabire, to fall, slip, or flow into, from il-, a form of in- + labire, to fall, slip. That said, it's uncommon outside of Webster's unabridged dictionary.
---L.
Also a noun, the act of -- both usually followed by "into". The main sense seems to be that it's a gentle entrance of one body into another, at least in English -- etymologically, it's the opposite of elapse, to flow away. From Latin illapsus, past participle of illabire, to fall, slip, or flow into, from il-, a form of in- + labire, to fall, slip. That said, it's uncommon outside of Webster's unabridged dictionary.
---L.
