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▪ I. prolapse, n.1|prəʊˈlæps|
[ad. late L. prōlapsus: see prolapsus.]
†1. Gliding forward or onward; lapse, passage (of time). Obs.
1585T. Washington tr. Nicholay's Voy. ii. vii. 36 b, By long prolapse of time..the Empyre..was brought vnder the dominion of the Geneuoises.
2. Path. = prolapsus.
1822–34Good's Study Med. (ed. 4) IV. 112 A prolapse of the anus. 1869G. Lawson Dis. Eye (1874) 40 They [the ulcers] frequently perforate the cornea, and cause extensive prolapse of the iris. Ibid. 154 If the wound in the lens is complicated with injury to, or prolapse of the iris.
▪ II. † prolapse, n.2 Obs. nonce-wd.
[ad. L. prōlaps-us, pa. pple. of prōlābī: see prolapsus; after relapse n.2]
One who has lapsed or slipped into error (in religious faith or practice).
[1563Foxe A. & M. 282/2 Eugenius was pronounced both an heretick & relaps. Ibid. 283/1 Panormitane..disputed..he can not be perswaded that Eugenius can be called a relaps, for so muche as he neyther in the firste, neyther yet in the seconde dissolution did violate hys faythe. ] Ibid. 283/2 This oration..this effecte it wrought, that afterwarde this worde relapse was taken out of the conclusiones and in stede therof this word prolapse put in.
▪ III. prolapse, v. Path.|prəʊˈlæps|
[f. L. prōlaps-, ppl. stem of prōlābī: see prolapsus.]
intr. To slip forward or down out of place.
1736Amyand in Phil. Trans. XXXIX. 333 The Increase of the Tumour had been checked, and the Reduction of the Parts prolapsed thereby, rendered impracticable. 1876Trans. Clinical Soc. IX. 4 In one or two..cases the iris was disposed to prolapse. 1897Allbutt's Syst. Med. III. 752 Often the bowel prolapses.
Hence proˈlapsed ppl. a., that has slipped down; also fig.
1738Amyand in Phil. Trans. XL. 364 It wraps up and incloses the Gut prolapsed. 1874Garrod & Baxter Mat. Med. 463 To give tone when applied to prolapsed parts. 1926S. Baldwin On England 111 We see the sentences of the ancients clean run like athletes and fit for their work as compared with the prolapsed and slovenly figures of so much of our own diction. |