Meaning of LAPSED
| Pronunciation: | | l'apst
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| | Definition: | | [adj] no longer active or practicing; "a lapsed Catholic" |
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| | Synonyms: | | irreligious, nonchurchgoing |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Lapsed\, a.
1. Having slipped downward, backward, or away; having lost
position, privilege, etc., by neglect; -- restricted to
figurative uses.
Once more I will renew His lapsed powers, though
forfeit. --Milton.
2. Ineffectual, void, or forfeited; as, a lapsed policy of
insurance; a lapsed legacy.
{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 ether cause. --Wharton (Law Dict.).
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| Thesaurus Terms |
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| | Related Terms: | | Adamic, ago, animal, animalistic, antiquated, antique, apostate, atheistic, backsliding, beastlike, beastly, bestial, blasphemous, blown over, bodily, brutal, brute, brutish, by, bygone, bypast, carnal, carnal-minded, Circean, 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 |
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