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lapsed
(encz) | lapsed,promlčený adj: Zdeněk Brož |
lapsed
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Lapsed
(gcide) | Lapse \Lapse\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Lapsed; p. pr. & vb. n.
Lapsing.]
1. To pass slowly and smoothly downward, backward, or away;
to slip downward, backward, or away; to glide; -- mostly
restricted to figurative uses.
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A tendency to lapse into the barbarity of those
northern nations from whom we are descended.
--Swift.
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Homer, in his characters of Vulcan and Thersites,
has lapsed into the burlesque character. --Addison.
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2. 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.
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To lapse in fullness
Is sorer than to lie for need. --Shak.
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3. (Law)
(a) 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.
(b) To become ineffectual or void; to fall.
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If the archbishop shall not fill it up within
six months ensuing, it lapses to the king.
--Ayliffe.
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Lapsed
(gcide) | Lapsed \Lapsed\, a.
1. Having slipped downward, backward, or away; having lost
position, privilege, etc., by neglect; -- restricted to
figurative uses.
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Once more I will renew
His lapsed powers, though forfeit. --Milton.
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2. Ineffectual, void, or forfeited; as, a lapsed policy of
insurance; a lapsed legacy.
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Lapsed devise, Lapsed legacy (Law), a devise, or legacy,
which fails to take effect in consequence of the death of
the devisee, or legatee, before that of the testator, or
for other cause. --Wharton (Law Dict.).
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lapsed
(wn) | lapsed
adj 1: no longer active or practicing; "a lapsed Catholic" [syn:
lapsed, nonchurchgoing] |
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collapsed
(encz) | collapsed,zbořený adj: Zdeněk Brožcollapsed,zhroucený adj: Zdeněk Brožcollapsed,zřícený adj: Zdeněk Brož |
elapsed
(encz) | elapsed,uplynul v: Zdeněk Broželapsed,uplynulý adj: Zdeněk Broželapsed,uplynutý adj: Zdeněk Brož |
elapsed time
(encz) | elapsed time, n: |
lapsed
(encz) | lapsed,promlčený adj: Zdeněk Brožlapsed,propadlý adj: Zdeněk Brož |
prolapsed
(encz) | prolapsed, |
relapsed
(encz) | relapsed,opětovně upadl Zdeněk Brožrelapsed,znovu onemocněl Zdeněk Brož |
Collapsed
(gcide) | Collapse \Col*lapse"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Collapsed; p. pr. &
vb. n. Collapsing] [L. collapsus, p. p. of collabi to
collapse; col- + labi to fall, slide. See Lapse.]
1. 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.
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A balloon collapses when the gas escapes from it.
--Maunder.
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2. 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.
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Delapsed
(gcide) | Delapse \De*lapse"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Delapsed; p. pr. &
vb. n. Delapsing.] [L. delapsus, p. p. of delabi to fall
down; de- + labi to fall or side.]
To pass down by inheritance; to lapse. [Obs.]
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Which Anne derived alone the right, before all other,
Of the delapsed crown from Philip. --Drayton.
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Elapsed
(gcide) | Elapse \E*lapse"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Elapsed; p. pr. & vb.
n. Elapsing.] [L. elapsus, p. p. of elabi to glide away; e
out + labi to fall, slide. See Lapse.]
To slip or glide away; to pass away silently, as time; --
used chiefly in reference to time.
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Eight days elapsed; at length a pilgrim came. --Hoole.
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Illapsed
(gcide) | Illapse \Il*lapse"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Illapsed; p. pr. &
vb. n. Illapsing.] [L. illapsus, p. p. of illabi; pref. il-
in + labi to fall, slide.]
To fall or glide; to pass; -- usually followed by into.
--Cheyne.
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Lapsed devise
(gcide) | Lapsed \Lapsed\, a.
1. Having slipped downward, backward, or away; having lost
position, privilege, etc., by neglect; -- restricted to
figurative uses.
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Once more I will renew
His lapsed powers, though forfeit. --Milton.
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2. Ineffectual, void, or forfeited; as, a lapsed policy of
insurance; a lapsed legacy.
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Lapsed devise, Lapsed legacy (Law), a devise, or legacy,
which fails to take effect in consequence of the death of
the devisee, or legatee, before that of the testator, or
for other cause. --Wharton (Law Dict.).
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Lapsed legacy
(gcide) | Lapsed \Lapsed\, a.
1. Having slipped downward, backward, or away; having lost
position, privilege, etc., by neglect; -- restricted to
figurative uses.
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Once more I will renew
His lapsed powers, though forfeit. --Milton.
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2. Ineffectual, void, or forfeited; as, a lapsed policy of
insurance; a lapsed legacy.
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Lapsed devise, Lapsed legacy (Law), a devise, or legacy,
which fails to take effect in consequence of the death of
the devisee, or legatee, before that of the testator, or
for other cause. --Wharton (Law Dict.).
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Preterlapsed
(gcide) | Preterlapsed \Pre`ter*lapsed"\, a. [L. praeterlapsus, p. p. of
praeterlabi to glide by. See Preter-, Lapse.]
Past; as, preterlapsed ages. [R.] --Glanvill.
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Relapsed
(gcide) | Relapse \Re*lapse"\ (r?-l?ps"), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Relapsed
(-l?pst"); p. pr. & vb. n. Relapsing.] [L. relapsus, p. p.
of relabi to slip back, to relapse; pref. re- re- + labi to
fall, slip, slide. See Lapse.]
1. To slip or slide back, in a literal sense; to turn back.
[Obs.] --Dryden.
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2. To slide or turn back into a former state or practice; to
fall back from some condition attained; -- generally in a
bad sense, as from a state of convalescence or amended
condition; as, to relapse into a stupor, into vice, or
into barbarism; -- sometimes in a good sense; as, to
relapse into slumber after being disturbed.
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That task performed, [preachers] relapse into
themselves. --Cowper.
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3. (Theol.) To fall from Christian faith into paganism,
heresy, or unbelief; to backslide.
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They enter into the justified state, and so continue
all along, unless they relapse. --Waterland.
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elapsed
(wn) | elapsed
adj 1: (of time) having passed or slipped by; "elapsed time" |
elapsed time
(wn) | elapsed time
n 1: the time that elapses while some event is occurring |
lapsed
(wn) | lapsed
adj 1: no longer active or practicing; "a lapsed Catholic" [syn:
lapsed, nonchurchgoing] |
LAPSED LEGACY
(bouvier) | LAPSED LEGACY. One which is extinguished. The extinguishment may take place
for various reasons. See Legacy, Lapsed.
2. A distinction has been made between a lapsed devise of real estate
and a lapsed legacy of personal estate. The real estate which is lapsed does
not fall into the residue, unless so provided by the will, but descends to
the heir at law; on the contrary, personal property passes by the residuary
clause where it is not otherwise disposed of. 2 Bouv. Inst. 2154-6.
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