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

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..

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..

Relapse :: Relapse (v. i.) To slide or turn back into a former state or practice; to fall back from some condition attained; -- generally in a bad sense, as from a state of convalescence or amended condition; as, to relapse into a stupor, into vice, or into barbarism; -- sometimes in a good sense; as, to relapse into slumber after being disturbed..

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

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

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

Illapsed :: Illapsed (imp. & p. p.) of Illaps.

Past :: Past (v.) Of or pertaining to a former time or state; neither present nor future; gone by; elapsed; ended; spent; as, past troubles; past offences..

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

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

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..

Backset :: Backset (n.) A check; a relapse; a discouragement; a setback.

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

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

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

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

Elapse :: Elapse (v. i.) To slip or glide away; to pass away silently, as time; -- used chiefly in reference to time..

Preterlapsed :: Preterlapsed (a.) Past; as, preterlapsed ages..

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

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