Verb

(es)

To intrude or insert oneself

* {{quote-book, 1963, , The Gift: A Novel citation

, passage="Were you asleep? Did I disturb you?" he would ask, seeing Fyodor flat on his back on the sofa, and then, ingressing entirely, he would shut the door tightly behind him and sit by Fyodor 's feet }}

* {{quote-book, 2001, Lynda Schor, chapter=My Death, Mother Reader, editor=Moyra Davey citation

, passage=When the tub was full I ingressed into the water gently, insinuating my body in a bit at a time, enjoying the sensual pleasure of the extreme heat on the lower part of my body

To enter (a specified location or area)

* {{quote-book, 1976, , The United States Air Force in Southeast Asia: Aces and Aerial Victories citation

, passage= "We ingressed North Vietnam over Cam Pha on a westerly heading," reported Captain Madden.}}

* {{quote-book, 1998, Michael William Donnelly, Falcon's Cry citation

, passage=We were ingressing the target area.}}

(intransitive, astrology, of a planet) To enter into a zodiacal sign

* {{quote-journal, 1861, date=December 28, , Almanacs, All the Year Round, volume=VI citation

, passage=The middle of March finds " Mars ingressing upon the 16th degree of Capricorn, where the sun has arrived in the nativity of Lord Palmerston,"

To manifest or cause to be manifested in the temporal world; to effect ingression

Verb

(es)

To step or turn aside; to deviate; to swerve; especially, to turn aside from the main subject of attention, or course of argument, in writing or speaking.

* Holland

Moreover she beginneth to digress in latitude.

* John Locke

In the pursuit of an argument there is hardly room to digress into a particular definition as often as a man varies the signification of any term.

* {{quote-song

, year = 1959 , title = In Old Mexico , composer = (Tom Lehrer) , passage = For I hadn't had so much fun since the day / my brother's dog Rover / got run over. / (Rover was killed by a Pontiac. And it was done with such grace and artistry that the witnesses awarded the driver both ears and the tail – but I digress .) }}

To turn aside from the right path; to transgress; to offend.

* Shakespeare

Thy abundant goodness shall excuse / This deadly blot on thy digressing son.