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Incapable of weeping. [Obs.] Bailey.

Incapable of slipping, or of error. [R.] Morally immutable and illapsable. Glanvill.

another; also, a sudden descent or attack. Akenside. They sit silent . . . waiting for an illapse of the spirit. Jeffrey.

Capable of being insnared or entrapped. [R.] Cudworth.

urpassing eloquence of Taylor dazzle you, nor his scholastic retairy versatility of logic illaqueate your good sense. Coleridge.

The act of catching or insnaring. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

hich is inferred; inference; deduction; conclusion. Fraudulent deductions or inconsequent illations from a false conception of things. Sir T. Browne.

Relating to, dependent on, or denoting, illation; inferential; conclusive; as, an illative consequence or proposition; an illative word, as then, therefore, etc. Illative conversion (Logic), a converse or reverse statement of a proposition which in that form must be true because the original proposition is true. -- Il…

By inference; as an illative; in an illative manner.

Not laudable; not praise-worthy; worthy of censure or disapprobation. Milton. -- Il*laud"a*bly, adv. [Obs.] Broome.

Allurement. [R.] T. Brown.

Alluring; attractive; enticing. [Obs.] Sir T. Elyot.

to, or authorized by, law; specif., contrary to, or in violation of, human law; unlawful; illicit; hence, immoral; as, an illegal act; illegal trade; illegal love. Bp. Burnet.

The quality or condition of being illegal; unlawfulness; as, the illegality of trespass or of false imprisonment; also, an illegal act.

To make or declare illegal or unlawful.

In a illegal manner; unlawfully.

Illegality, unlawfulness.

The state or quality of being illegible.

Incapable of being read; not legible; as, illegible handwriting; an illegible inscription. -- Il*leg"i*ble*ness, n. -- Il*leg"i*bly, adv.

The state of being illegitimate. Blackstone.