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a.
Having slipped downward, backward, or away; having lost position, privilege, etc., by neglect; -- restricted to figurative uses.
imp. & p. p.
of 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.
a.
Growing old; decaying with the lapse of time.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of 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.
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.
a.
Liable to lapse.
n.
Course; passage; lapse or process of time.
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.
v. i.
To become ineffectual or void; to fall.
n.
Liability to lapse, err, or apostatize.
v. i.
To slide or slip in moral conduct; to fail in duty; to fall from virtue; to deviate from rectitude; to commit a fault by inadvertence or mistake.
v. t.
To let slip; to permit to devolve on another; to allow to pass.
n.
A slip; an error; a fault; a failing in duty; a slight deviation from truth or rectitude.
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.
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.
a.
Ineffectual, void, or forfeited; as, a lapsed policy of insurance; a lapsed legacy.
n.
A fall or apostasy.
v. t.
To surprise in a fault or error; hence, to surprise or catch, as an offender.
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