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Delapsed :: Delapsed (imp. & p. p.) of Delaps.

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..

Peridiastole :: Peridiastole (n.) The almost inappreciable time which elapses between the systole and the diastole of the heart.

Lapsed :: Lapsed (imp. & p. p.) of Laps.

Recadency :: Recadency (n.) A falling back or descending a second time; a relapse.

Fall :: Fall (n.) Lapse or declension from innocence or goodness. Specifically: The first apostasy; the act of our first parents in eating the forbidden fruit; also, the apostasy of the rebellious angels..

Relapsed :: Relapsed (imp. & p. p.) of Relaps.

Collapsion :: Collapsion (n.) Collapse.

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..

Collapse :: Collapse (n.) A falling together suddenly, as of the sides of a hollow vessel..

Lapsed :: Lapsed (a.) Ineffectual, void, or forfeited; as, a lapsed policy of insurance; a lapsed legacy..

Collapse :: Collapse (v. i.) To fall together suddenly, as the sides of a hollow vessel; to close by falling or shrinking together; to have the sides or parts of (a thing) fall in together, or be crushed in together; as, a flue in the boiler of a steam engine sometimes collapses..

Illapsed :: Illapsed (imp. & p. p.) of Illaps.

Algidity :: Algidity (n.) coldness and collapse.

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..

Elapsed :: Elapsed (imp. & p. p.) of Elaps.

Novatian :: Novatian (n.) One of the sect of Novatius, or Novatianus, who held that the lapsed might not be received again into communion with the church, and that second marriages are unlawful..

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..

Prolapse :: Prolapse (v. i.) To fall down or out; to protrude.

Setback :: Setback (n.) A backset; a check; a repulse; a reverse; a relapse.

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