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Lapsed :: Lapsed (a.) Having slipped downward, backward, or away; having lost position, privilege, etc., by neglect; -- restricted to figurative uses..

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

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

Delapsed :: Delapsed (imp. & p. p.) of Delaps.

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..

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

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

Illapse :: Illapse (v. i.) A gliding in; an immisson or entrance of one thing into another; also, a sudden descent or attack..

Relapse :: Relapse (v. i.) To slip or slide back, in a literal sense; to turn back..

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

Collapsion :: Collapsion (n.) Collapse.

Peridiastole :: Peridiastole (n.) The almost inappreciable time which elapses between the systole and the diastole of the heart.

Irrelapsable :: Irrelapsable (a.) Not liable to relapse; secure.

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

Prolapsion :: Prolapsion (n.) Prolapse.

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..

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

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..

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

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

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