Lapsed

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [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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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [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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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  lapsed
       adj : no longer active or practicing; "a lapsed Catholic" [syn: {nonchurchgoing}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  94 Moby Thesaurus words for "lapsed":
     Adamic, Circean, ago, animal, animalistic, antiquated, antique,
     apostate, atheistic, backsliding, beastlike, beastly, bestial,
     blasphemous, blown over, bodily, brutal, brute, brutish, by,
     bygone, bypast, carnal, carnal-minded, coarse, dated, dead,
     dead and buried, deceased, defunct, departed, earthy, elapsed,
     erring, expired, extinct, fallen, fallen from grace, finished,
     fleshly, forgotten, frail, gone, gone glimmering, gone-by, gross,
     has-been, impious, impure, infirm, irrecoverable, irreligious,
     irreverent, material, materialistic, no more, nonspiritual,
     obsolete, of easy virtue, orgiastic, over, passe, passed,
     passed away, past, peccable, physical, postlapsarian, prodigal,
     profanatory, profane, recidivist, recidivistic, recreant, renegade,
     run out, sacrilegious, swinish, unangelic, unchaste, unclean,
     undutiful, ungodly, ungood, unrighteous, unsaintly, unspiritual,
     unvirtuous, vanished, virtueless, wanton, wayward, weak,
     wound up