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Lapse :: Lapse (v. i.) To slide or slip in moral conduct; to fail in duty; to fall from virtue; to deviate from rectitude; to commit a fault by inadvertence or mistake.

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..

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

Relapsing :: Relapsing (a.) Marked by a relapse; falling back; tending to return to a former worse state.

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..

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

Lapsible :: Lapsible (a.) Liable to lapse.

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

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

Recidivous :: Recidivous (a.) Tending or liable to backslide or relapse to a former condition or habit.

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

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

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

Prolapsion :: Prolapsion (n.) Prolapse.

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

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..

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

Lapse :: Lapse (n.) A slip; an error; a fault; a failing in duty; a slight deviation from truth or rectitude.

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..

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