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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..

Lapse :: Lapse (n.) A fall or apostasy.

Failing :: Failing (n.) A failing short; a becoming deficient; failure; deficiency; imperfection; weakness; lapse; fault; infirmity; as, a mental failing..

Collapsion :: Collapsion (n.) Collapse.

Setback :: Setback (n.) A backset; a check; a repulse; a reverse; a relapse.

Instauration :: Instauration (n.) Restoration after decay, lapse, or dilapidation; renewal; repair; renovation; renaissance..

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

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..

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

Lapse :: Lapse (v. i.) To become ineffectual or void; to fall.

Preterlapsed :: Preterlapsed (a.) Past; as, preterlapsed ages..

Weed :: Weed (n.) A sudden illness or relapse, often attended with fever, which attacks women in childbed..

Senescent :: Senescent (a.) Growing old; decaying with the lapse of time.

Circumduce :: Circumduce (v. t.) To declare elapsed, as the time allowed for introducing evidence..

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..

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

Relapsing :: Relapsing (a.) Marked by a relapse; falling back; tending to return to a former worse state.

Collapse :: Collapse (v. i.) To fall together suddenly, as the sides of a hollow vessel; to close by falling or shrinking together; to have the sides or parts of (a thing) fall in together, or be crushed in together; as, a flue in the boiler of a steam engine sometimes collapses..

Backset :: Backset (n.) A check; a relapse; a discouragement; a setback.

Prolapse :: Prolapse (v. i.) To fall down or out; to protrude.

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