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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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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..

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

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

Collapse :: Collapse (n.) A sudden and complete failure; an utter failure of any kind; a breakdown.

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

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..

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

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

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..

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

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

Delapse :: Delapse (v. i.) To pass down by inheritance; to lapse.

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

Lapse :: Lapse (v. t.) To let slip; to permit to devolve on another; to allow to pass.

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

Relapser :: Relapser (n.) One who relapses.

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

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

Senescent :: Senescent (a.) Growing old; decaying with the lapse of time.