Definition of lapse

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

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Instauration :: Instauration (n.) Restoration after decay, lapse, or dilapidation; renewal; repair; renovation; renaissance..
Illapse :: Illapse (v. i.) A gliding in; an immisson or entrance of one thing into another; also, a sudden descent or attack..
Illapse :: Illapse (v. i.) To fall or glide; to pass; -- usually followed by into.
Collapsed :: Collapsed (imp. & p. p.) of Collaps.
Interlapse :: Interlapse (n.) The lapse or interval of time between two events.
Relapse :: Relapse (v. i.) To fall from Christian faith into paganism, heresy, or unbelief; to backslide..
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..
Prolapsion :: Prolapsion (n.) Prolapse.
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..
Irrelapsable :: Irrelapsable (a.) Not liable to relapse; secure.
Decurrence :: Decurrence (n.) The act of running down; a lapse.
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..
Senescent :: Senescent (a.) Growing old; decaying with the lapse of time.
Lapse :: Lapse (n.) A slip; an error; a fault; a failing in duty; a slight deviation from truth or rectitude.
Progression :: Progression (n.) Course; passage; lapse or process of time.
Lapse :: Lapse (v. t.) To surprise in a fault or error; hence, to surprise or catch, as an offender..
Relapsed :: Relapsed (imp. & p. p.) of Relaps.
Collapse :: Collapse (v. i.) To fail suddenly and completely, like something hollow when subject to too much pressure; to undergo a collapse; as, Maximilian's government collapsed soon after the French army left Mexico; many financial projects collapse after attaining some success and importance..
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..
Delapse :: Delapse (v. i.) To pass down by inheritance; to lapse.
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