What does increep mean?
Increep means (intransitive, poetic) To creep in; to make a furtive entrance..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · verb
(intransitive, poetic) To 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.
It seemed a thing for weeping / To find, at slumber's wane / And morning's sly increeping, / That Now, not Then, held reign.
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Increep means (intransitive, poetic) To creep in; to make a furtive entrance..
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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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