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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..

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

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..

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

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

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

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

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

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..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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..

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

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..

Collapsion :: Collapsion (n.) Collapse.

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