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Preterlapsed :: Preterlapsed (a.) Past; as, preterlapsed ages..

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..

Delapse :: Delapse (v. i.) To pass down by inheritance; to lapse.

Relapse :: Relapse (v. i.) To slip or slide back, in a literal sense; to turn back..

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..

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..

Cropper :: Cropper (n.) A fall on one's head when riding at full speed, as in hunting; hence, a sudden failure or collapse..

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..

Collapse :: Collapse (n.) A sudden and complete failure; an utter failure of any kind; a breakdown.

Pass :: Pass (v. i.) To go by or glide by, as time; to elapse; to be spent; as, their vacation passed pleasantly..

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..

Lapse :: Lapse (v. t.) To let slip; to permit to devolve on another; to allow to pass.

Lapse :: Lapse (v. t.) To surprise in a fault or error; hence, to surprise or catch, as an offender..

Weed :: Weed (n.) A sudden illness or relapse, often attended with fever, which attacks women in childbed..

Lapse :: Lapse (v. i.) To become ineffectual or void; to fall.

Instauration :: Instauration (n.) Restoration after decay, lapse, or dilapidation; renewal; repair; renovation; renaissance..

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..

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

Lability :: Lability (n.) Liability to lapse, err, or apostatize..

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..

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