intransitive. To fall. (Chiefly figurative.) Obsolete.

intransitive. To give in to temptation; to lapse morally; to sin; spec. (esp. of a woman) to have a sexual encounter outside marriage. Cf. fallen…

figurative. To lapse morally; to commit some fault; to err or go wrong.

To fall into mistake, fault, or error; to err, †to sin. Also with into (error, etc.).

intransitive. To slip, slide; to fall or lapse to or into sin or a vice.