Definition of elapse

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

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Relapse :: Relapse (v. i.) To slip or slide back, in a literal sense; to turn back..
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..
Circumduce :: Circumduce (v. t.) To declare elapsed, as the time allowed for introducing evidence..
Relapser :: Relapser (n.) One who relapses.
Relapse :: Relapse (v. i.) To fall from Christian faith into paganism, heresy, or unbelief; to backslide..
Peridiastole :: Peridiastole (n.) The almost inappreciable time which elapses between the systole and the diastole of the heart.
Delapse :: Delapse (v. i.) To pass down by inheritance; to lapse.
Recidivous :: Recidivous (a.) Tending or liable to backslide or relapse to a former condition or habit.
Backset :: Backset (n.) A check; a relapse; a discouragement; a setback.
Relapsed :: Relapsed (imp. & p. p.) of Relaps.
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..
Pass :: Pass (v. i.) To go by or glide by, as time; to elapse; to be spent; as, their vacation passed pleasantly..
Irrelapsable :: Irrelapsable (a.) Not liable to relapse; secure.
Setback :: Setback (n.) A backset; a check; a repulse; a reverse; a relapse.
Hypostrophe :: Hypostrophe (n.) A relapse, or return of a disease..
Elapsed :: Elapsed (imp. & p. p.) of Elaps.
Delapsed :: Delapsed (imp. & p. p.) of Delaps.
Relapsing :: Relapsing (a.) Marked by a relapse; falling back; tending to return to a former worse state.
Weed :: Weed (n.) A sudden illness or relapse, often attended with fever, which attacks women in childbed..
Relapse :: Relapse (v.) One who has relapsed, or fallen back, into error; a backslider; specifically, one who, after recanting error, returns to it again..
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