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

Lapse :: Lapse (n.) The termination of a right or privilege through neglect to exercise it within the limited time, or through failure of some contingency; hence, the devolution of a right or privilege..

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

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

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

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

Illapse :: Illapse (v. i.) To fall or glide; to pass; -- usually followed by into.

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

Setback :: Setback (n.) A backset; a check; a repulse; a reverse; a relapse.

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..

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..

Algidity :: Algidity (n.) coldness and collapse.

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

Hypostrophe :: Hypostrophe (n.) A relapse, or return of a disease..

Lapse :: Lapse (n.) A gliding, slipping, or gradual falling; an unobserved or imperceptible progress or passing away,; -- restricted usually to immaterial things, or to figurative uses..

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

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

Prolapsion :: Prolapsion (n.) Prolapse.

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..

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

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