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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..

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..

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

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

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..

Prolapsus :: Prolapsus (n.) Prolapse.

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

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

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

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

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..

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

Lapsed :: Lapsed (imp. & p. p.) of Laps.

Collapsion :: Collapsion (n.) Collapse.

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

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

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.

Relapse :: Relapse (v. i.) To fall from Christian faith into paganism, heresy, or unbelief; to backslide..

Recadency :: Recadency (n.) A falling back or descending a second time; a relapse.

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..

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