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LAPSE, n. laps. [L. lapsus, from labor, to slide, to fall.]
LAPSE, v.i. laps.
A gliding,
slipping, or gradual falling; an unobserved or imperceptible progress
or passing away,; -- restricted usually to immaterial things, or to
figurative uses.
The lapse to indolence is soft and imperceptible. Rambler. Bacon was content to wait the lapse of long centuries for his expected revenue of fame. I. Taylor. A slip; an error; a fault; a failing in
duty; a slight deviation from truth or rectitude.
To guard against those lapses and failings to which our infirmities daily expose us. Rogers. 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 fall or
apostasy.
To pass slowly and smoothly
downward, backward, or away] to slip downward, backward, or away; to
glide; -- mostly restricted to figurative uses.
A tendency to lapse into the barbarity of those northern nations from whom we are descended. Swift. Homer, in his characters of Vulcan and Thersites, has lapsed into the burlesque character. Addison. 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.
To lapse in fullness 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.
To
let slip; to permit to devolve on another; to allow to
pass.
An appeal may be deserted by the appellant's lapsing the term of law. Ayliffe. To surprise in a fault or error; hence, to
surprise or catch, as an offender.
[Obs.]
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