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

Relapse :: Relapse (v. i.) To fall from Christian faith into paganism, heresy, or unbelief; to backslide..

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..

Proctocele :: Proctocele (n.) Inversion and prolapse of the mucous coat of the rectum, from relaxation of the sphincter, with more or less swelling; prolapsus ani..

Exception :: Exception (n.) An objection, oral or written, taken, in the course of an action, as to bail or security; or as to the decision of a judge, in the course of a trail, or in his charge to a jury; or as to lapse of time, or scandal, impertinence, or insufficiency in a pleading; also, as in conveyancing, a clause by which the grantor excepts something before granted..

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

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

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

Prolapsion :: Prolapsion (n.) Prolapse.

Relapsed :: Relapsed (imp. & p. p.) of Relaps.

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

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..

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

Collapse :: Collapse (v. i.) To fail suddenly and completely, like something hollow when subject to too much pressure; to undergo a collapse; as, Maximilian's government collapsed soon after the French army left Mexico; many financial projects collapse after attaining some success and importance..

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

Cropper :: Cropper (n.) A fall on one's head when riding at full speed, as in hunting; hence, a sudden failure or collapse..

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

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..

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

Lapsed :: Lapsed (imp. & p. p.) of Laps.

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