Definition of lapse

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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.

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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..
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..
Irrelapsable :: Irrelapsable (a.) Not liable to relapse; secure.
Relapser :: Relapser (n.) One who relapses.
Hypostrophe :: Hypostrophe (n.) A relapse, or return of a disease..
Delapse :: Delapse (v. i.) To pass down by inheritance; to lapse.
Supralapsarian :: Supralapsarian (n.) One of that class of Calvinists who believed that God's decree of election determined that man should fall, in order that the opportunity might be furnished of securing the redemption of a part of the race, the decree of salvation being conceived of as formed before or beyond, and not after or following, the lapse, or fall. Cf. Infralapsarian..
Lapsible :: Lapsible (a.) Liable to lapse.
Lapse :: Lapse (n.) A fall or apostasy.
Weed :: Weed (n.) A sudden illness or relapse, often attended with fever, which attacks women in childbed..
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..
Progression :: Progression (n.) Course; passage; lapse or process of time.
Illapse :: Illapse (v. i.) A gliding in; an immisson or entrance of one thing into another; also, a sudden descent or attack..
Illapse :: Illapse (v. i.) To fall or glide; to pass; -- usually followed by into.
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..
Lapsed :: Lapsed (imp. & p. p.) of Laps.
Relapse :: Relapse (v.) One who has relapsed, or fallen back, into error; a backslider; specifically, one who, after recanting error, returns to it again..
Prolapse :: Prolapse (n.) The falling down of a part through the orifice with which it is naturally connected, especially of the uterus or the rectum..
Relapsed :: Relapsed (imp. & p. p.) of Relaps.
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..
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