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