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

Prolapse :: Prolapse (n.) The falling down of a part through the orifice with which it is naturally connected, especially of the uterus or the rectum..

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

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

Lapse :: Lapse (n.) A gliding, slipping, or gradual falling; an unobserved or imperceptible progress or passing away,; -- restricted usually to immaterial things, or to figurative uses..

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

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

Collapse :: Collapse (n.) A falling together suddenly, as of the sides of a hollow vessel..

Collapsion :: Collapsion (n.) Collapse.

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..

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..

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..

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

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

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

Decurrence :: Decurrence (n.) The act of running down; a lapse.

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

Relapse :: Relapse (v.) A sliding or falling back, especially into a former bad state, either of body or morals; backsliding; the state of having fallen back..

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..

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

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