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Collapse :: Collapse (n.) Extreme depression or sudden failing of all the vital powers, as the result of disease, injury, or nervous disturbance..

Lapse :: Lapse (n.) A fall or apostasy.

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

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

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..

Prolapse :: Prolapse (v. i.) To fall down or out; to protrude.

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..

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

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

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

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

Failing :: Failing (n.) A failing short; a becoming deficient; failure; deficiency; imperfection; weakness; lapse; fault; infirmity; as, a mental failing..

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..

Relapse :: Relapse (v.) One who has relapsed, or fallen back, into error; a backslider; specifically, one who, after recanting error, returns to it again..

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..

Instauration :: Instauration (n.) Restoration after decay, lapse, or dilapidation; renewal; repair; renovation; renaissance..

Relapsed :: Relapsed (imp. & p. p.) of Relaps.

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.

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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