单词 | unlapsed |
释义 | unlapsedadj. That has not lapsed (in various senses of lapse v.). ΘΚΠ society > morality > virtue > purity > [adjective] > not morally fallen unstumbled1399 unlapsed1648 unfallen1653 1648 Antidote against Infectious Aire sig. A3v In the highest consideration of your unlapsed Being. 1668 H. More Divine Dialogues: Two Last Dial. iv. vii. 26 His Dominion..over Angels, whether lapsed or unlapsed. 1740 G. Cheyne Ess. Regimen 297 Unlapsed, tried and purified angelical Hierarchies. 1777 R. Nation Philos. Disquis. Christian Relig. 35 Whether this globe was primitively the seat of innocent and unlapsed spirits..cannot be known. 1856 L. Lee Elem. Theol. ii. vii. 180/2 It would require all the powers of humanity in an unlapsed state, to meet the entire claims of God's law. 1885 Milwaukee (Wisconsin) Sentinel 25 Jan. 2/4 They can break their contract, which is for five years, at any moment they please, by returning £3 for each unlapsed year. 1953 Tucson (Arizona) Daily Citizen 12 Mar. 16/6 A separate mortuary fund must be maintained in which 60 per cent of all premiums on unlapsed policies must be deposited. 2003 New Yorker 13 Jan. 66/1 Since then he has been going to meetings and referring to himself as an ‘un-lapsed’ Quaker. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1648 |
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