lapsen.
/laps/, U.S. /læps/ 1. A ‘slip’ of the memory, the tongue, the pen, or †the understanding; a slight error, a mistake.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > lack of truth, falsity > an error, mistake > [noun] > minor
lapse1526
slip1601
lapsus1668
miscarriage1754
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > inaccuracy, inexactness > incorrectness of language > [noun] > incorrect speech > slip of the tongue
lapse1526
lapsus linguae1668
a slip of the tongue1725
tripping1894
tongue-slip1913
1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection iii. sig. GGiiii A none by lapse of tonge, they ronne in to inconuenyentes.
1610 J. Guillim Display of Heraldrie ii. viii. 76 Lest they fall into the Laps of the iteration or doubling of any prohibited words.
1643 Sir T. Browne Religio Medici (authorized ed.) i. §7 Not Heresies in me, but bare Errors, and single Lapses of my understanding. View more context for this quotation
1665 E. Stillingfleet Rational Acct. Protestant Relig. 198 Those very words which his Lordship, by a lapse of memory, attributes to Occham.
1677 J. Dryden Authors Apol. Heroique Poetry in State Innocence Pref. sig. bv 'Tis..unmanly to snarl at the little lapses of a Pen, from which Virgil himself stands not exempted.
1707 E. Ward Wooden World Dissected 18 Sometimes their villanous Reflections take Wind, and then ten to one but their Bullet-heads compound for the Lapses of their Tongues.
1885 W. H. Thompson in Athenæum 23 May 662/1 A further lapse of memory in the venerable astronomer's letter is the statement [etc.].
2. † b. Theology. The ‘Fall’ (of Adam). Obsolete.
a. A falling from rectitude, imputable to weakness or lack of precaution: a moral ‘slip’.
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the mind > goodness and badness > wrongdoing > erring > [noun] > instance
falla1225
scapec1440
lapse1582
slip1601
stumble1702
society > morality > moral evil > wrong conduct > [noun] > moral fall or lapse
falla1225
scapec1440
surreption1536
prolapsion1581
lapse1582
slip1601
stumble1702
1582 Earl of Essex in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1827) 2nd Ser. III. 80 I do beseache your good Lordship, notwithstanding the lapse of my youth, still to continue a loving frende unto me.
a1616 W. Shakespeare All's Well that ends Well (1623) ii. iii. 164 I will throw thee..Into the staggers, and the carelesse lapse Of youth and ignorance. View more context for this quotation
1672 Bp. J. Wilkins Of Princ. Nat. Relig. 225 The fear of God..must fortifie us in our temptations, and restore us in our lapses.
1712 R. Steele Spectator No. 276. ⁋1 To..abruptly inform a virtuous Woman of the Lapse of one who till then was in the same Degree of Esteem with her self.
1838 W. H. Prescott Hist. Reign Ferdinand & Isabella II. ii. v. 393 The severe training which he had undergone, made him less charitable for the lapses of others.
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society > faith > aspects of faith > spirituality > sin > kinds of sin > [noun] > original
fleshc1200
original sinc1350
falla1400
birth poison1528
birth sin?1546
fall from grace1560
lapse1659
lapse from grace1687
birth stain1820
felix culpa1963
1659 J. Pearson Expos. Apostles Creed x. 729 The first affection we can conceive in him upon the lapse of man, is wrath and indignation.
a1711 T. Ken Psyche ii, in Wks. (1721) IV. 217 To heav'nly Truths my Mind Is by the Lapse, born Blind.
a1774 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued (1777) III. iii. 177 Evil is represented to have been brought upon the human race by the lapse of Adam.
c. A lapsing or apostatizing from the faith, a falling into heresy. Also, in weaker sense, an involuntary deviation from one's principles or rule of action.
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society > faith > aspects of faith > apostasy > [noun]
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recidivationa1425
perversiona1450
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relapsec1475
resiluation1513
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residuationa1535
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abrenunciation1557
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backslide1586
relapsing1591
recreantness1611
apostating1648
recadency1648
apostatizing1659
lapse1660
apostatism1814
renegadism1823
1660 H. More Explan. Grand Myst. Godliness v. xvii. 206 Suspecting our selves not to have emerged quite out of this General Apostasy of the Church, into which the Spirit of God has foretold she would be lapsed for 1260 years; let us see if we can find out what Remainders of this Lapse are still upon us.
1753 Scots Mag. July 315/1 Of our lapses and relapses since, I may perhaps treat.
1796 E. Burke Lett. Peace Regic. France iv, in Wks. (1812) IX. 66 It is from their lapses and deviations from their principle, that alone we have any thing to hope.
1828 I. D'Israeli Comm. Life Charles I I. iii. 43 Laud..read a list of persons whom he had recovered from their lapses into Papistry.
1873 W. H. Dixon Hist. Two Queens I. i. ii. 9 Domingo heard of men being stabbed and hung for lapse of faith.
3. A decline to a lower state or degree; †a fall (in temperature).
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the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > coldness > [noun] > fall in temperature
lapse1541
the world > action or operation > adversity > [noun] > fall from prosperous or thriving condition
rureOE
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downfallingc1330
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labefactation1535
ebb1555
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declension1604
downset1608
neck-breaka1658
overseta1658
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reducement1667
lapse1680
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subsidence1839
downgrade1857
downturn1858
downslide1889
downswing1922
turn-down1957
tail-off1975
1541 T. Elyot Castel of Helthe (new ed.) 8 a Accordynge to the lapse or decaye of the temperatures of the sayd humours.
1620 T. Venner Via Recta viii. 170 If..the lapse be in heat, meates and drinkes of colde quality agreeable to the lapse..are to be vsed.
1680 Bp. G. Burnet Some Passages Life Rochester (1692) 85 So that it is plain there is a Lapse of the high powers of the Soul.
1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. III. xiv. 434 The hero sank again into a voluptuary; and the lapse was deep and hopeless.
1875 E. Poste tr. Gaius Institutionum Iuris Civilis (ed. 2) i. 125 A lapse from liber to servus was a dissolution of marriage, for servus was incapable of matrimony.
1883 H. Spencer in Contemp. Rev. 43 5 All these lapses from higher to lower forms begin in trifling ways.
4.
a. Law. The termination of a right or privilege through neglect to exercise it within the limited time, or through failure of some contingency. In early use only with reference to ecclesiastical patronage.
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society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > right to succeed to title, position, or estate > reversion > [noun] > lapsing
lapse1570
lapsing1884
1570 Act 13 Eliz. c. 12 §7 No Title to confer or present by Lapse, shall accrue upon any Depryvation, ipso facto.
1615 King James VI & I in Buccleuch MSS (Hist. MSS Comm.) (1899) I. 171 Spiritual livings do often fall void either by lapse or by the death of the incumbent.
1642 tr. J. Perkins Profitable Bk. i. §15. 8 After the five moneths past the Ordinary shall present for Lapps.
1654 J. Bramhall Just Vindic. Church of Eng. iv. 69 The King onely could incurre no lapse, Nullum tempus occurrit Regi.
1726 J. Ayliffe Parergon Juris Canonici Anglicani 117 A Layman ought to Present within four Months, and a Clergyman within six, otherwise a Devolution or Lapse of Right happens.
1767 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. (new ed.) II. 276 The law has therefore given this right of lapse, in order to quicken the patron.
1788 H. Walpole Reminiscences (1924) vii. 53 By the lapse of some annuities on lives not so prolonged as her own, she found herself straitened.
1827 T. Jarman Powell's Ess. Learning of Devises (ed. 3) II. 51 The destination of sums, given out of the produce of land devised to be sold, failing by lapse.
1845 J. Williams Princ. Law Real Prop. i. x. 155 The failure of a devise, by the decease of the devisee in the testator's lifetime, is called a lapse.
1875 W. Stubbs Constit. Hist. II. xvii. 621 The Presentation to vacant churches after lapse.
b. gen. A falling into disuse; an intermission.
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the world > action or operation > ceasing > temporary cessation of activity or operation > [noun] > a temporary cessation of activity or operation
pause1440
trip1584
interpause1595
wem1599
stand1602
vacation1617
interspiration1623
intercisiona1631
interregnum1659
lapse1838
shutdown1857
break1878
slip1898
seventh-inning stretch1915
standoff1918
1838 W. H. Prescott Hist. Reign Ferdinand & Isabella (1846) II. xiv. 41 Restoring the authority of the law, which was exposed to such perpetual lapses.
1847–9 A. Helps Friends in Council (1851) 1st Ser. 7 A casual function which may be fulfilled at once after any lapse of exercise.
5. A falling into ruin. rare.
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1605 F. Bacon Of Aduancem. Learning i. sig. I4 His [sc. Adrian's] whole time was a very restauration of all the lapses and decayes of former times. View more context for this quotation
1894 R. D. Blackmore Perlycross I. ii. 11 The vaults of the Waldron race lay at the bottom of half the lapse [sc. of a church].
6. figurative.1800 T. Moore Remarks on Anacreon 5 The sweetest lapses of the cygnet's song.c1800 H. K. White Poems (1837) 138 And laugh, and seize the glittering lapse of joy.
a. A gliding, flow (of water); quasi-concrete a gliding flood. Also occasionally a gentle downward motion.
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the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > [noun]
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goutc1400
stream14..
flowingc1440
watercourse1552
current1555
fluxc1600
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currency1657
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come1862
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > downward motion > [noun] > gentle
lapse1785
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost viii. 263 Sunnie Plaines, And liquid Lapse of murmuring Streams. View more context for this quotation
1726 A. Pope tr. Homer Odyssey IV. xvii. 232 From the rock, with liquid lapse distills A limpid fount.
1785 W. Cowper Task iv. 326 The downy flakes Descending, and, with never-ceasing lapse Softly alighting upon all below, Assimilate all objects.
1794 J. Hurdis Tears Affect. 22 The liquid lapse Of Rother gliding o'er some pebbly shoal.
1822 T. Taylor tr. Apuleius Metamorphosis 98 Near the lapse of the fountain there was a royal house.
1825 H. W. Longfellow Burial Minnisink 4 With soft and silent lapse came down The glory, that the wood receives, At sunset, in its golden leaves.
1850 E. B. Browning My Doves vi They listen..For lapse of water, swell of breeze.
1856 T. Aird Poet. Wks. (new ed.) 27 Down comes the stream, a lapse of living amethyst.
1879 R. C. Trench Poems 52 With lapse just audible, From font to font the waters fell.
b. Of life, time, etc.: The gliding or passing away, passage; a period or interval elapsed.
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the world > time > [noun] > course or passage of time
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coursec1460
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by-passing1526
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transcursion1622
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devolution1629
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preterition1647
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progress1664
fluxation1710
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currency1726
lapse1758
elapse1793
time-lapse1864
wearing1876
the world > time > period > [noun] > of the world or history
eldOE
timeOE
worldOE
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era1741
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age1827
canon1833
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the world > time > [noun] > stretch, period, or portion of time > period of time between events or interval
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intermission?1566
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fore-while?1615
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interlude1751
in-between1815
lapse1817
intermezzo1851
meanwhile1872
1758 S. Johnson Idler 8 July 105 During this gentle lapse of life.
1790 E. Gibbon Misc. Wks. (1814) III. 416 The term of his mortal existence was almost commensurate with the lapse of the eleventh century.
1817 J. Mill Hist. Brit. India II. v. v. 484 Troops..could not..be collected without a lapse of time.
1853 M. Arnold Scholar Gipsy in Poems (new ed.) 209 No, no, thou hast not felt the lapse of hours.
1877 M. Oliphant Makers of Florence (ed. 2) v. 124 A lapse of a hundred years is not much in the story of such a city as Florence.
1898 J. T. Fowler Durham Cathedral 62 Old inhabitants, after a lapse of nearly three centuries and a half, still speak of ‘The Abbey’.
7. Confused with laps, plural of lap n.1
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1558 in J. Strype Ann. Reformation I. App. iv. 5 Clemency to be extended not before they do..acknowledge themselves to have fallen in the Lapse of the Law.
1602 W. Warner Albions Eng. (1612) ix. li. 230 They will exact by Torture what thou thinkest,..till in the Lapse thou fall.
Compounds
lapse rate n. Meteorology the rate of fall of temperature with height; also transferred.
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the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > [noun] > rate of fall with height
lapse rate1918
1918 Meteorol. Gloss. (Meteorol. Office) (new ed.) 183 Lapse,..a word suggested for use instead of gradient..to denote the loss of temperature or pressure of the atmosphere with height. So that lapse-rate, or lapse-ratio, for temperature will be the fall of temperature per kilometre of height.
1928 D. Brunt Meteorol. vi. 46 The average conditions in the troposphere are specified by a lapse-rate of 3°F. per 1,000 feet.
1957 G. J. Haltiner & F. L. Martin Dynamical & Physical Meteorol. xiii. 210 The local increase in lapse rate was due to a combination of low-level warming and high-level cooling by horizontal advection.
1972 Biol. Abstr. 54 1081/2 The lapse rate of soil temperature indicates a large value in summer and a small one in winter.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1902; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
lapsev.
/laps/, U.S. /læps/ I. Intransitive senses.† 2. To fall into decay. Obsolete.in extended use.1882 J. H. Blunt Reformation Church of Eng. II. 2 The government lapsed into the hands of a few working members of the Privy Council.
1. † b. simply. To fall into error, heresy, or sin. Obsolete.
a. To fall away by slow degrees; to pass or sink gradually through absence of effort or sustaining influence. Also with away, back, out. Constr. from, into.
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the world > action or operation > adversity > be in adversity [verb (intransitive)] > fall from prosperous or thriving condition
afalleOE
wanec1000
fallOE
ebba1420
to go backward?a1425
to go down?1440
decay1483
sink?a1513
delapsea1530
reel1529
decline1530
to go backwards1562
rue1576
droop1577
ruina1600
set1607
lapse1641
to lose ground1647
to go to pigs and whistles1794
to come (also go) down in the world1819
to peg out1852
to lose hold, one's balance1877
to go under1879
toboggan1887
slip1930
to turn down1936
the mind > goodness and badness > badness or evil > worse > [verb (intransitive)]
worseeOE
aswindc885
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impair1340
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degenerate1545
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worser1894
1641 J. Jackson True Evangelical Temper i. 39 Many lapsed and apostatized from the faith.
1655 H. L'Estrange Reign King Charles 124 So ill are even the best actions relisht of men lapsed into common disdain.
1669 R. Baxter Direct. Weak Distempered Christians ii. 4 Those that are lapsed into some wounding sin.
1691 J. Norris Pract. Disc. Divine Subj. 169 Man is deeply lapsed and degenerated from a state of Excellency.
1704 R. Nelson Compan. Festivals & Fasts i. xxviii. 302 Their Fathers lapsed into Idolatry.
1803 T. R. Malthus Ess. Princ. Population (new ed.) iv. vi. 529 Should the British constitution ultimately lapse into a despotism.
1851 Official Descriptive & Illustr. Catal. Great Exhib. I. 205 Hybrids..gradually lapse into the one or the other of the originals.
1851 C. Dickens Our Watering Place in Househ. Words 2 Aug. 434/1 They seemed to lapse away, of mere imbecility.
1862 E. M. Goulburn Thoughts Personal Relig. (1873) iii. ii. 164 Take away the variety of vocations..and..society lapses again into barbarism.
1870 J. H. Burton Hist. Scotl. to 1688 VI. lxviii. 421 In his account of this copy of the book, Prynne lapses from his usual exactness.
1872 W. Black Strange Adventures Phaeton xxx. 407 The road itself seems lapsing back into moorland.
1891 E. Peacock Narcissa Brendon I. 25 Joel lapsed into thought.
1920 D. H. Lawrence Women in Love xxiii. 351 She possessed him so utterly and intolerably that, she herself lapsed out.
1930 D. H. Lawrence Assorted Articles 19 If I could dance all day as well, I might keep going. It's this leaving off that does me in.—And she lapsed out.
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society > faith > aspects of faith > heresy > [verb (intransitive)]
lapsea1616
a1616 W. Shakespeare Cymbeline (1623) iii. vi. 12 To lapse in Fulnesse Is sorer, then to lye for Neede. View more context for this quotation
1649 F. Roberts Clavis Bibliorum (ed. 2) 368 That highest wisdome cannot secure us from lapsing, if the Lord a little leave us to ourselves.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost x. 572 Oft they fell Into the same illusion, not as Man Whom they triumph'd once lapst . View more context for this quotation
c. To pass out of existence; to become eliminated.Apparently an isolated use.
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1884 tr. H. Lotze Logic 322 The case (C − a = E + a). The part a disappears in our observation from C or is by experimental means made to lapse.
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the world > matter > condition of matter > bad condition of matter > deteriorate in condition [verb (intransitive)] > be dilapidated or ruined > fall into ruins
to-reosea900
fallOE
tumblea1400
ruinate1562
lapse1620
dilapidate1712
fail1776
the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > disadvantage > uselessness > non-use > remain unused [verb (intransitive)] > fall into disuse or become obsolete
to pass forth of use1565
lapse1620
to play out1835
obsolesce1873
1620 T. Venner Via Recta viii. 170 The like respect also, in reducing a constitution lapsed, is to bee had of the age.
1655 H. L'Estrange Reign King Charles 167 Having appointed the..Governour of the Castle, to take order for the re-edification of what was lapsed.
3. Law. Of a benefice, an estate, a right, etc.: To fall in, pass away, revert (to some one) owing to non-fulfilment of conditions or failure of persons entitled to possession. Of a devise or grant: To become void. (Quot. 1726 may be passive of 7.)
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society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > right to succeed to title, position, or estate > reversion > revert [verb (intransitive)] > lapse
to run out1556
lapse1726
society > law > transfer of property > types of transfer > [verb (intransitive)] > lapse (of devise or grant)
lapse1827
1726 J. Ayliffe Parergon Juris Canonici Anglicani 333 Such Benefices as are lapsed unto the Bishop.
1767 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. (new ed.) II. 183 If they do not both agree within six months, the right of presentation shall lapse.
1806 T. S. Surr Winter in London III. i. 44 There must be an heir to the Beauchamp estates, or they will lapse into possession of the crown.
1827 T. Jarman Powell's Ess. Learning of Devises (ed. 3) II. 327 If..the gift were to testator's children..by name,..the share of one of the objects subsequently dying in his lifetime would, if the gift were joint, survive to the others; but, if it were several, lapse.
1841 H. J. Stephen New Comm. Laws Eng. I. 165 The estate which was lapsed or fallen in by the death of the last tenant.
1852 W. F. Hook Church Dict. (1871) 430 When a patron neglects to present a clergyman to a benefice in his gift within six months after its vacancy, the benefice lapses to the bishop; and if he does not collate within six months, it lapses to the archbishop; and if he neglects to collate within six months, it lapses to the Crown.
1874 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People iv. §2. 168 The bulk of the earldoms had already lapsed to the Crown.
1875 K. E. Digby Introd. Hist. Law Real Prop. viii. 306 If a devisee dies in the lifetime of the testator, though the devise may have been expressed to be made to him and his heirs..the devise lapses, or fails to take effect.
1879 Cassell's Techn. Educator (new ed.) IV. 90/2 For the whole of fourteen years it lay unused, the consequence was that the patent altogether lapsed.
1884 Law Times Rep. 12 Apr. 202/1 The income..lapses and goes to the testator's widow and grandson, as next of kin.
4.
a. To glide, pass with an effortless motion; also, to descend gradually, to sink, subside.
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the world > movement > progressive motion > specific manner of progressive motion > move progressively in specific manner [verb (intransitive)] > easily or freely
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runc1400
rolla1500
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lapse1798
shimmer1904
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > downward motion > move downwards [verb (intransitive)] > sink > allow oneself to drop down gradually or easily
slip1470
sink1713
subside1809
lapse1889
1798 W. S. Landor Gebir in Wks. (1846) II. 491 And now one arm Fell, and her other lapsing o'er the neck Of Gebir, swung against his back incurved.
1858 N. Hawthorne Fr. & Ital. Jrnls. II. 127 Where angels might alight, lapsing downward from heaven.
1867 W. D. Howells Ital. Journeys 317 They rise and lapse [sc. in intonation] several times in each sentence.
1889 The County ix I manage a cool ‘How do you do, Mr. Vaudrey?’ and lapse into a low chair.
b. Of a stream: To glide, flow; apparently used by many writers with a reminiscence or echo of lap v.1 (sense 4). Also with along. Occasionally of a person, a vessel: To float, glide gently over the water.
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the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > flow [verb (intransitive)] > slowly or gently
trinkle1513
glide1526
soak1699
lapse1832
slumber1868
the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > sound of water > make sound of or like water [verb (intransitive)] > lap
lap1823
lapse1832
slap1840
lap-lap1871
wap1910
society > travel > travel by water > action or motion of vessel > [verb (intransitive)] > make progress > glide
glideOE
lapse1832
schoon1836
1832 L. Hunt Sonnet in Poet. Wks. 211 Hear the fruitful stream lapsing along 'Twixt villages.
1832 L. Hunt Sir Ralph Esher II. iii. 198 I lapsed about the Isis in a boat.
1852 N. Hawthorne Blithedale Romance xii. 120 I saw the river lapsing calmly onward.
1859 A. A. Procter Haunted House: Ghost in Picture Room in All Year Round Extra Christmas No., 13 Dec 19/1 Of rippling waves, that lapsed in silver hush Upon the beach.
1863 C. C. Clarke Shakespeare-characters vi. 142 And, with this, come thronging visions of the ‘silver Thames’..and barges lapsing on its tranquil tide.
1865 Cornhill Mag. Oct. 447 The murmurous water lapses against the far-off sea-wall with a sound as of a distant hum of bees.
1880 W. Watson Prince's Quest 132 My soul is such a stream as thou, Lapsing along it heeds not how.
c. Of time: To glide past, pass away.
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the world > time > [verb (intransitive)]
overgoeOE
agoeOE
goOE
forthgoOE
runOE
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to pass awaya1400
overseyc1400
drive?c1450
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slevea1510
to roll awaya1522
to roll overa1522
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to pass on1574
to run on1578
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to roll round1684
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to roll around1769
to roll by1790
transpire1824
to come around1829
tide1835
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tick1937
1702 C. Mather Magnalia Christi iv. ii. iv. 164/1 Sixteen Years will this Summer be lapsed, since [etc.].
1860 N. Hawthorne Marble Faun II. x. 113 She knew that the moments were fleetly lapsing away.
II. Transitive (causative) senses.† 5. To cause to slip or fall, to draw down. Const. into. Obsolete.† 6. To let slip (time, a term); to let pass without being turned to account. Obsolete.† 7. To allow (a right) to lapse; to suffer the lapse of (a living); to forfeit, lose. Obsolete.
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society > morality > moral evil > moral or spiritual degeneration > degrading or impairing morally > degrade or impair morally [verb (transitive)] > cause to lapse or stumble
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scandal1632
lapse1664
1664 H. More Modest Enq. Myst. Iniquity 250 That notorious serpentine shape which deceived Adam and Eve and Lapsed them into rebellion.
1681 H. More Plain Expos. Daniel App. i. 258 In lapsing and keeping down the Empire in Superstition and Idolatry.
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the world > time > spending time > spend time [verb (intransitive)] > waste time
prolong1449
protract1526
dally?1548
to burn daylight1597
lapse1667
to hinder time1712
niffle1775
to cut to waste1863
the world > action or operation > inaction > not doing > not do [verb (transitive)] > allow to pass or miss (an opportunity, etc.)
overleapa1400
slack1548
slake1560
lapse1667
1667 R. Allestree Causes Decay Christian Piety vi. 137 We know the danger of lapsing time in case of Mortgage, but here our danger is greater.
1680 R. Morden Geogr. Rectified (1685) 127 Erick the Fifth..lapsed his time of demanding the Investiture of the Electorship.
1683 W. Cave Ecclesiastici 528 He would many times lapse the usual times of dining, and eat nothing till the evening.
1726 J. Ayliffe Parergon Juris Canonici Anglicani 81 An Appeal may be deserted by the Appellants lapsing the Term of Law.
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society > law > legal right > withdrawal or loss of legal rights > take away a right [verb (transitive)] > allow a right to lapse
lapse1642
society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > right to succeed to title, position, or estate > reversion > revert to [verb (transitive)] > suffer lapse of
lapse1642
1642 W. Laud Diary in Wks. (1853) III. 249 Tuesday I received a letter, dated Jan. 17, from His Majesty, to give Chartham to Mr. Reddinge, or lapse it to him.
1660 Plea for Ministers in Sequestration 4 The complainants have lapsed their Livings.
1687 in J. R. Bloxham Magdalen Coll. & James II (1886) 45 Q. Eliz: did jure suo make Dr Bond præs: ye Coll. hauing lapsd yr election.
1697 Confer. Lambeth in W. S. Perry Hist. Coll. Amer. Colonial Church: Virginia (1870) I. 47 A Vestry cannot lapse their right of presentation as a patron may.
8. ? Associated with lapse = laps plural (lap n.1 6a): ? To pounce upon as an offender, apprehend. Obsolete.
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a1616 W. Shakespeare Twelfth Night (1623) iii. iii. 36 For which if I be lapsed in this place I shall pay deere. View more context for this quotation
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n.1526v.a1616- rub off
- rub on
- rub on the green
- rub one's hands
- rub one's nose in
- rub our minds together
- rub out
- rub over
- rub rail
- rub resistance
- rub salt in one's wounds
- rub shoulders
- rub the rust off
- rub the wrong way
- rub their minds together
- rub through
- rub to the whit
- rub to whit
- rub up
- rub up the wrong way
- rub-a-dub
- rub-a-dub-dub
- rub-board
- rub-off
- rub-resistant