Definition of elapse

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Elapse (v. i.) To slip or glide away; to pass away silently, as time; -- used chiefly in reference to time..

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Irrelapsable :: Irrelapsable (a.) Not liable to relapse; secure.
Setback :: Setback (n.) A backset; a check; a repulse; a reverse; a relapse.
Recadency :: Recadency (n.) A falling back or descending a second time; a relapse.
Elapse :: Elapse (v. i.) To slip or glide away; to pass away silently, as time; -- used chiefly in reference to time..
Relapse :: Relapse (v.) A sliding or falling back, especially into a former bad state, either of body or morals; backsliding; the state of having fallen back..
Past :: Past (v.) Of or pertaining to a former time or state; neither present nor future; gone by; elapsed; ended; spent; as, past troubles; past offences..
Relapse :: Relapse (v. i.) To slip or slide back, in a literal sense; to turn back..
Delapse :: Delapse (v. i.) To pass down by inheritance; to lapse.
Relapser :: Relapser (n.) One who relapses.
Circumduce :: Circumduce (v. t.) To declare elapsed, as the time allowed for introducing evidence..
Delapsed :: Delapsed (imp. & p. p.) of Delaps.
Relapsed :: Relapsed (imp. & p. p.) of Relaps.
Backset :: Backset (n.) A check; a relapse; a discouragement; a setback.
Hypostrophe :: Hypostrophe (n.) A relapse, or return of a disease..
Relapse :: Relapse (v. i.) To fall from Christian faith into paganism, heresy, or unbelief; to backslide..
Pass :: Pass (v. i.) To go by or glide by, as time; to elapse; to be spent; as, their vacation passed pleasantly..
Relapse :: Relapse (v. i.) To slide or turn back into a former state or practice; to fall back from some condition attained; -- generally in a bad sense, as from a state of convalescence or amended condition; as, to relapse into a stupor, into vice, or into barbarism; -- sometimes in a good sense; as, to relapse into slumber after being disturbed..
Recidivous :: Recidivous (a.) Tending or liable to backslide or relapse to a former condition or habit.
Elapsed :: Elapsed (imp. & p. p.) of Elaps.
Relapsing :: Relapsing (a.) Marked by a relapse; falling back; tending to return to a former worse state.
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