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Progression :: Progression (n.) Course; passage; lapse or process of time.

Delapsed :: Delapsed (imp. & p. p.) of Delaps.

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..

Lability :: Lability (n.) Liability to lapse, err, or apostatize..

Lapsed :: Lapsed (a.) Ineffectual, void, or forfeited; as, a lapsed policy of insurance; a lapsed legacy..

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

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..

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

Peridiastole :: Peridiastole (n.) The almost inappreciable time which elapses between the systole and the diastole of the heart.

Prolapsus :: Prolapsus (n.) Prolapse.

Interlapse :: Interlapse (n.) The lapse or interval of time between two events.

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..

Relapsed :: Relapsed (imp. & p. p.) of Relaps.

Lapse :: Lapse (v. i.) To slide or slip in moral conduct; to fail in duty; to fall from virtue; to deviate from rectitude; to commit a fault by inadvertence or mistake.

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

Lapse :: Lapse (v. i.) To fall or pass from one proprietor to another, or from the original destination, by the omission, negligence, or failure of some one, as a patron, a legatee, etc..

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..

Illapse :: Illapse (v. i.) A gliding in; an immisson or entrance of one thing into another; also, a sudden descent or attack..

Proctocele :: Proctocele (n.) Inversion and prolapse of the mucous coat of the rectum, from relaxation of the sphincter, with more or less swelling; prolapsus ani..

Collapse :: Collapse (n.) A sudden and complete failure; an utter failure of any kind; a breakdown.

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