LAPSE
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Lapse (lăps), n. [L. lapsus, fr. labi, p. p. lapsus, to slide, to fall: cf. F. laps. See Sleep.] 1. A gliding, slipping, or gradual falling; an unobserved or imperceptible progress or passing away,; -- restricted usually to immaterial things, or to figurative uses.
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The lapse to indolence is soft and imperceptible.
Rambler.
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Bacon was content to wait the lapse of long centuries for his expected revenue of fame.
I. Taylor.
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2. A slip; an error; a fault; a failing in duty; a slight deviation from truth or rectitude.
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To guard against those lapses and failings to which our infirmities daily expose us.
Rogers.
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3. (Law) 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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4. (Theol.) A fall or apostasy.
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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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Lapse, v. t. 1. To let slip; to permit to devolve on another; to allow to pass.
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An appeal may be deserted by the appellant's lapsing the term of law.
Ayliffe.
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2. To surprise in a fault or error; hence, to surprise or catch, as an offender. [Obs.]
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For which, if be lapsed in this place,
I shall pay dear.
Shak.
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