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lapsing
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Lapsing
(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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lapsing
(wn) | lapsing
n 1: a failure to maintain a higher state [syn: backsliding,
lapse, lapsing, relapse, relapsing, reversion,
reverting] |
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collapsing
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collapsing
(encz) | collapsing,bortící adj: Zdeněk Brožcollapsing,zřícení n: Zdeněk Brož |
lapsing
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relapsing
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relapsing fever
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Collapsing
(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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Delapsing
(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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Elapsing
(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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Illapsing
(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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Relapsing
(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.
[1913 Webster]Relapsing \Re*laps"ing\, a.
Marked by a relapse; falling back; tending to return to a
former worse state.
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Relapsing fever (Med.), an acute, epidemic, contagious
fever, which prevails also endemically in Ireland, Russia,
and some other regions. It is marked by one or two
remissions of the fever, by articular and muscular pains,
and by the presence, during the paroxism of spiral
bacterium (Spirochaete) in the blood. It is not usually
fatal. Called also famine fever, and recurring fever.
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Relapsing fever
(gcide) | Relapsing \Re*laps"ing\, a.
Marked by a relapse; falling back; tending to return to a
former worse state.
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Relapsing fever (Med.), an acute, epidemic, contagious
fever, which prevails also endemically in Ireland, Russia,
and some other regions. It is marked by one or two
remissions of the fever, by articular and muscular pains,
and by the presence, during the paroxism of spiral
bacterium (Spirochaete) in the blood. It is not usually
fatal. Called also famine fever, and recurring fever.
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lapsing
(wn) | lapsing
n 1: a failure to maintain a higher state [syn: backsliding,
lapse, lapsing, relapse, relapsing, reversion,
reverting] |
relapsing
(wn) | relapsing
n 1: a failure to maintain a higher state [syn: backsliding,
lapse, lapsing, relapse, relapsing, reversion,
reverting] |
relapsing fever
(wn) | relapsing fever
n 1: marked by recurring high fever and transmitted by the bite
of infected lice or ticks; characterized by episodes of
high fever and chills and headache and muscle pain and
nausea that recur every week or ten days for several months
[syn: relapsing fever, recurrent fever] |
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