Definition of lapse

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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..

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Algidity :: Algidity (n.) coldness and collapse.
Failing :: Failing (n.) A failing short; a becoming deficient; failure; deficiency; imperfection; weakness; lapse; fault; infirmity; as, a mental failing..
Weed :: Weed (n.) A sudden illness or relapse, often attended with fever, which attacks women in childbed..
Relapsed :: Relapsed (imp. & p. p.) of Relaps.
Delapse :: Delapse (v. i.) To pass down by inheritance; to lapse.
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.
Decurrence :: Decurrence (n.) The act of running down; a lapse.
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.) A slip; an error; a fault; a failing in duty; a slight deviation from truth or rectitude.
Fall :: Fall (n.) Lapse or declension from innocence or goodness. Specifically: The first apostasy; the act of our first parents in eating the forbidden fruit; also, the apostasy of the rebellious angels..
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..
Lapse :: Lapse (v. i.) To become ineffectual or void; to fall.
Collapse :: Collapse (n.) Extreme depression or sudden failing of all the vital powers, as the result of disease, injury, or nervous disturbance..
Pass :: Pass (v. i.) To go by or glide by, as time; to elapse; to be spent; as, their vacation passed pleasantly..
Collapse :: Collapse (n.) A sudden and complete failure; an utter failure of any kind; a breakdown.
Lapsible :: Lapsible (a.) Liable to lapse.
Senescent :: Senescent (a.) Growing old; decaying with the lapse of time.
Relapsing :: Relapsing (a.) Marked by a relapse; falling back; tending to return to a former worse state.
Elapse :: Elapse (v. i.) To slip or glide away; to pass away silently, as time; -- used chiefly in reference to time..
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