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

Relief :: Relief (n.) A fine or composition which the heir of a deceased tenant paid to the lord for the privilege of taking up the estate, which, on strict feudal principles, had lapsed or fallen to the lord on the death of the tenant..

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..

Decurrence :: Decurrence (n.) The act of running down; a lapse.

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

Lapsed :: Lapsed (a.) Having slipped downward, backward, or away; having lost position, privilege, etc., by neglect; -- restricted to figurative uses..

Interlapse :: Interlapse (n.) The lapse or interval of time between two events.

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..

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

Lapse :: Lapse (n.) The termination of a right or privilege through neglect to exercise it within the limited time, or through failure of some contingency; hence, the devolution of a right or privilege..

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

Collapsed :: Collapsed (imp. & p. p.) of Collaps.

Lapse :: Lapse (n.) A fall or apostasy.

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

Illapse :: Illapse (v. i.) A gliding in; an immisson or entrance of one thing into another; also, a sudden descent or attack..

Irrelapsable :: Irrelapsable (a.) Not liable to relapse; secure.

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

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

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..

Circumduce :: Circumduce (v. t.) To declare elapsed, as the time allowed for introducing evidence..

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