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Lapse
Webster's Dictionary
or (1):
(n.) A slip; an error; a fault; a failing in duty; a slight deviation from truth or rectitude.
(2):
(n.) The termination of a right or privilege through neglect to exercise it within the limited time, or through failure of some contingency; hence, the devolution of a right or privilege.
(3):
(n.) A fall or apostasy.
(4):
(v. t.) To let slip; to permit to devolve on another; to allow to pass.
(5):
(n.) A gliding, slipping, or gradual falling; an unobserved or imperceptible progress or passing away,; - restricted usually to immaterial things, or to figurative uses.
(6):
(v. t.) To surprise in a fault or error; hence, to surprise or catch, as an offender.
(7):
(v. i.) To pass slowly and smoothly downward, backward, or away; to slip downward, backward, or away; to glide; - mostly restricted to figurative uses.
(8):
(v. i.) 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.
(9):
(v. i.) 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.
(10):
(v. i.) To become ineffectual or void; to fall.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Lapse'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/l/lapse.html. 1828.
