Definition of apse

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Apse (n.) A projecting part of a building, esp. of a church, having in the plan a polygonal or semicircular termination, and, most often, projecting from the east end. In early churches the Eastern apse was occupied by seats for the bishop and clergy..

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Setback :: Setback (n.) A backset; a check; a repulse; a reverse; a relapse.
Lapse :: Lapse (n.) A fall or apostasy.
Algidity :: Algidity (n.) coldness and collapse.
Semidome :: Semidome (n.) A roof or ceiling covering a semicircular room or recess, or one of nearly that shape, as the apse of a church, a niche, or the like. It is approximately the quarter of a hollow sphere..
Delapse :: Delapse (v. i.) To pass down by inheritance; to lapse.
Hypostrophe :: Hypostrophe (n.) A relapse, or return of a disease..
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..
Lapse :: Lapse (v. t.) To let slip; to permit to devolve on another; to allow to pass.
Peridiastole :: Peridiastole (n.) The almost inappreciable time which elapses between the systole and the diastole of the heart.
Lapsible :: Lapsible (a.) Liable to lapse.
Cropper :: Cropper (n.) A fall on one's head when riding at full speed, as in hunting; hence, a sudden failure or collapse..
Collapsed :: Collapsed (imp. & p. p.) of Collaps.
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..
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.
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..
Progression :: Progression (n.) Course; passage; lapse or process of time.
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.
Prolapse :: Prolapse (n.) The falling down of a part through the orifice with which it is naturally connected, especially of the uterus or the rectum..
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