Definition of apse

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Apse (n.) A reliquary, or case in which the relics of saints were kept..

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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..
Decurrence :: Decurrence (n.) The act of running down; a lapse.
Preterlapsed :: Preterlapsed (a.) Past; as, preterlapsed ages..
Algidity :: Algidity (n.) coldness and collapse.
Peridiastole :: Peridiastole (n.) The almost inappreciable time which elapses between the systole and the diastole of the heart.
Apse :: Apse (n.) A reliquary, or case in which the relics of saints were kept..
Hypostrophe :: Hypostrophe (n.) A relapse, or return of a disease..
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..
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..
Recadency :: Recadency (n.) A falling back or descending a second time; a relapse.
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..
Apse :: 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..
Relapse :: Relapse (v. i.) To slip or slide back, in a literal sense; to turn back..
Weed :: Weed (n.) A sudden illness or relapse, often attended with fever, which attacks women in childbed..
Collapse :: Collapse (n.) A falling together suddenly, as of the sides of a hollow vessel..
Relapse :: Relapse (v. i.) To fall from Christian faith into paganism, heresy, or unbelief; to backslide..
Lapsed :: Lapsed (imp. & p. p.) of Laps.
Elapsed :: Elapsed (imp. & p. p.) of Elaps.
Progression :: Progression (n.) Course; passage; lapse or process of time.
Collapsion :: Collapsion (n.) Collapse.
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