Definition of apse

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Apse (n.) A projecting part of a building, esp. of a church, having in the plan a polygonal or semicircular termination, and, most often, projecting from the east end. In early churches the Eastern apse was occupied by seats for the bishop and clergy..

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Apse :: Apse (n.) The bishop's seat or throne, in ancient churches..
Apse :: Apse (n.) A projecting part of a building, esp. of a church, having in the plan a polygonal or semicircular termination, and, most often, projecting from the east end. In early churches the Eastern apse was occupied by seats for the bishop and clergy..
Algidity :: Algidity (n.) coldness and collapse.
Lapsed :: Lapsed (imp. & p. p.) of Laps.
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..
Backset :: Backset (n.) A check; a relapse; a discouragement; a setback.
Relapse :: Relapse (v. i.) To slip or slide back, in a literal sense; to turn back..
Collapse :: Collapse (v. i.) To fail suddenly and completely, like something hollow when subject to too much pressure; to undergo a collapse; as, Maximilian's government collapsed soon after the French army left Mexico; many financial projects collapse after attaining some success and importance..
Lapse :: Lapse (v. i.) To fall or pass from one proprietor to another, or from the original destination, by the omission, negligence, or failure of some one, as a patron, a legatee, etc..
Collapse :: Collapse (n.) A falling together suddenly, as of the sides of a hollow vessel..
Lapse :: Lapse (n.) A gliding, slipping, or gradual falling; an unobserved or imperceptible progress or passing away,; -- restricted usually to immaterial things, or to figurative uses..
Illapsed :: Illapsed (imp. & p. p.) of Illaps.
Relapser :: Relapser (n.) One who relapses.
Failing :: Failing (n.) A failing short; a becoming deficient; failure; deficiency; imperfection; weakness; lapse; fault; infirmity; as, a mental failing..
Illapse :: Illapse (v. i.) A gliding in; an immisson or entrance of one thing into another; also, a sudden descent or attack..
Lapsed :: Lapsed (a.) Ineffectual, void, or forfeited; as, a lapsed policy of insurance; a lapsed legacy..
Setback :: Setback (n.) A backset; a check; a repulse; a reverse; a relapse.
Delapse :: Delapse (v. i.) To pass down by inheritance; to lapse.
Prolapsion :: Prolapsion (n.) Prolapse.
Decurrence :: Decurrence (n.) The act of running down; a lapse.
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