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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..

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

Collapse :: Collapse (n.) Extreme depression or sudden failing of all the vital powers, as the result of disease, injury, or nervous disturbance..

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

Lapsible :: Lapsible (a.) Liable to lapse.

Elapsed :: Elapsed (imp. & p. p.) of Elaps.

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

Prolapsion :: Prolapsion (n.) Prolapse.

Recadency :: Recadency (n.) A falling back or descending a second time; a relapse.

Pass :: Pass (v. i.) To go by or glide by, as time; to elapse; to be spent; as, their vacation passed pleasantly..

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..

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..

Illapsed :: Illapsed (imp. & p. p.) of Illaps.

Collapsed :: Collapsed (imp. & p. p.) of Collaps.

Lapse :: Lapse (n.) A slip; an error; a fault; a failing in duty; a slight deviation from truth or rectitude.

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

Lapse :: Lapse (v. t.) To surprise in a fault or error; hence, to surprise or catch, as an offender..

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..

Relapse :: Relapse (v. i.) To slip or slide back, in a literal sense; to turn back..

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..

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