increep

present singular third person increeps · participle present increeping · participle past incrept · past incrept

1. intransitivepoeticTo creep in; to make a furtive entrance.

   1849, Henoch Clapham, quoted in Jane Eliza Leeson, Chapters on Deacons First, order gone, and doores not being kept, / By baptisme heaps of prophane do rush. / With them, at length, a ministry incrept, / That with the horn God's ordinance did push.

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   It seemed a thing for weeping / To find, at slumber's wane / And morning's sly increeping, / That Now, not Then, held reign.

   1922, Thomas Hardy, In The Small Hours