Definition of lapse

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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..

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Proctocele :: Proctocele (n.) Inversion and prolapse of the mucous coat of the rectum, from relaxation of the sphincter, with more or less swelling; prolapsus ani..
Lapse :: Lapse (v. i.) To pass slowly and smoothly downward, backward, or away; to slip downward, backward, or away; to glide; -- mostly restricted to figurative uses..
Senescent :: Senescent (a.) Growing old; decaying with the lapse of time.
Collapse :: Collapse (n.) A sudden and complete failure; an utter failure of any kind; a breakdown.
Illapse :: Illapse (v. i.) A gliding in; an immisson or entrance of one thing into another; also, a sudden descent or attack..
Prolapse :: Prolapse (n.) The falling down of a part through the orifice with which it is naturally connected, especially of the uterus or the rectum..
Lability :: Lability (n.) Liability to lapse, err, or apostatize..
Setback :: Setback (n.) A backset; a check; a repulse; a reverse; a relapse.
Lapse :: Lapse (n.) A fall or apostasy.
Relapsing :: Relapsing (a.) Marked by a relapse; falling back; tending to return to a former worse state.
Progression :: Progression (n.) Course; passage; lapse or process of time.
Delapse :: Delapse (v. i.) To pass down by inheritance; to lapse.
Peridiastole :: Peridiastole (n.) The almost inappreciable time which elapses between the systole and the diastole of the heart.
Backset :: Backset (n.) A check; a relapse; a discouragement; a setback.
Lapsed :: Lapsed (a.) Having slipped downward, backward, or away; having lost position, privilege, etc., by neglect; -- restricted to figurative uses..
Relapse :: Relapse (v. i.) To slip or slide back, in a literal sense; to turn back..
Illapsed :: Illapsed (imp. & p. p.) of Illaps.
Exception :: Exception (n.) An objection, oral or written, taken, in the course of an action, as to bail or security; or as to the decision of a judge, in the course of a trail, or in his charge to a jury; or as to lapse of time, or scandal, impertinence, or insufficiency in a pleading; also, as in conveyancing, a clause by which the grantor excepts something before granted..
Collapse :: Collapse (n.) A falling together suddenly, as of the sides of a hollow vessel..
Interlapse :: Interlapse (n.) The lapse or interval of time between two events.
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