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Lapse :: Lapse (v. i.) To pass slowly and smoothly downward, backward, or away; to slip downward, backward, or away; to glide; -- mostly restricted to figurative uses..

Lapse :: Lapse (v. t.) To let slip; to permit to devolve on another; to allow to pass.

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

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

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..

Delapse :: Delapse (v. i.) To pass down by inheritance; to lapse.

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

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

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

Recidivous :: Recidivous (a.) Tending or liable to backslide or relapse to a former condition or habit.

Relapser :: Relapser (n.) One who relapses.

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..

Prolapsus :: Prolapsus (n.) Prolapse.

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.

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

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..

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..

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

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