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incrept

incrept is the simple past and past participle of increep.

Meaning of increep

Verb

increep (third-person singular simple present increeps, present participle increeping, simple past and past participle incrept)

  1. (intransitive, poetic) To creep in; to make a furtive entrance.
    • 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.1849, Henoch Clapham, quoted in Jane Eliza Leeson, Chapters on Deacons

Questions about incrept

What is incrept the simple past and past participle of?
Incrept is the simple past and past participle of increep.

Words near incrept in the dictionary

  1. increpated
  2. increpates
  3. increpating
  4. increpation
  5. increpations
  6. incrept
  7. increscence
  8. increscent
  9. increscents
  10. increst
  11. incrested

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