Definition of lapse

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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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Lapse :: Lapse (n.) A fall or apostasy.
Weed :: Weed (n.) A sudden illness or relapse, often attended with fever, which attacks women in childbed..
Elapse :: Elapse (v. i.) To slip or glide away; to pass away silently, as time; -- used chiefly in reference to time..
Relapsing :: Relapsing (a.) Marked by a relapse; falling back; tending to return to a former worse state.
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..
Hypostrophe :: Hypostrophe (n.) A relapse, or return of a disease..
Prolapsus :: Prolapsus (n.) Prolapse.
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..
Collapsed :: Collapsed (imp. & p. p.) of Collaps.
Failing :: Failing (n.) A failing short; a becoming deficient; failure; deficiency; imperfection; weakness; lapse; fault; infirmity; as, a mental failing..
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..
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.
Circumduce :: Circumduce (v. t.) To declare elapsed, as the time allowed for introducing evidence..
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..
Lapse :: Lapse (n.) A slip; an error; a fault; a failing in duty; a slight deviation from truth or rectitude.
Lapsed :: Lapsed (imp. & p. p.) of Laps.
Lapsible :: Lapsible (a.) Liable to lapse.
Relapse :: Relapse (v. i.) To slip or slide back, in a literal sense; to turn back..
Instauration :: Instauration (n.) Restoration after decay, lapse, or dilapidation; renewal; repair; renovation; renaissance..
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..
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