Definition of lapse

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

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Delapse :: Delapse (v. i.) To pass down by inheritance; to lapse.
Illapsed :: Illapsed (imp. & p. p.) of Illaps.
Relapse :: Relapse (v. i.) To slip or slide back, in a literal sense; to turn back..
Weed :: Weed (n.) A sudden illness or relapse, often attended with fever, which attacks women in childbed..
Lability :: Lability (n.) Liability to lapse, err, or apostatize..
Instauration :: Instauration (n.) Restoration after decay, lapse, or dilapidation; renewal; repair; renovation; renaissance..
Pass :: Pass (v. i.) To go by or glide by, as time; to elapse; to be spent; as, their vacation passed pleasantly..
Interlapse :: Interlapse (n.) The lapse or interval of time between two events.
Algidity :: Algidity (n.) coldness and collapse.
Illapse :: Illapse (v. i.) To fall or glide; to pass; -- usually followed by into.
Circumduce :: Circumduce (v. t.) To declare elapsed, as the time allowed for introducing evidence..
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..
Prolapsus :: Prolapsus (n.) Prolapse.
Lapse :: Lapse (v. t.) To surprise in a fault or error; hence, to surprise or catch, as an offender..
Decurrence :: Decurrence (n.) The act of running down; a lapse.
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..
Lapse :: Lapse (v. t.) To let slip; to permit to devolve on another; to allow to pass.
Irrelapsable :: Irrelapsable (a.) Not liable to relapse; secure.
Cropper :: Cropper (n.) A fall on one's head when riding at full speed, as in hunting; hence, a sudden failure or collapse..
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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