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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Relapsing \Re*laps"ing\, a. Marked by a relapse; falling back; tending to return to a former worse state.
Relapsing fever (Med.), an acute, epidemic, contagious fever, which prevails also endemically in Ireland, Russia, and some other regions. It is marked by one or two remissions of the fever, by articular and muscular pains, and by the presence, during the paroxism of spiral bacterium ( Spiroch[ae]te) in the blood. It is not usually fatal. Called also famine fever, and recurring fever.
Relapse \Re*lapse"\ (r?-l?ps"), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Relapsed (-l?pst"); p. pr. & vb. n. Relapsing.] [L. relapsus, p. p. of relabi to slip back, to relapse; pref. re- re- + labi to fall, slip, slide. See Lapse.]
To slip or slide back, in a literal sense; to turn back. [Obs.]
--Dryden.-
To slide or turn back into a former state or practice; to fall back from some condition attained; -- generally in a bad sense, as from a state of convalescence or amended condition; as, to relapse into a stupor, into vice, or into barbarism; -- sometimes in a good sense; as, to relapse into slumber after being disturbed.
That task performed, [preachers] relapse into themselves.
--Cowper. -
(Theol.) To fall from Christian faith into paganism, heresy, or unbelief; to backslide.
They enter into the justified state, and so continue all along, unless they relapse.
--Waterland.
Wiktionary
n. (context archaic English) relapse vb. (present participle of relapse English)
WordNet
Usage examples of "relapsing".
After relapsing, work hard to avoid or to prepare for your next lapse.
When the new converts had been enrolled in the number of the faithful, and were admitted to the sacraments of the church, they found themselves restrained from relapsing into their past disorders by another consideration of a less spiritual, but of a very innocent and respectable nature.
Mr Turnbull, relapsing into the language he associated with sophistication in matters of the heart.
Lady Maud, relapsing rather prematurely into the language of the nursery.
He slouched back again in his chair, relapsing for several minutes into brooding silence, while Marston found an excuse for lingering in carefully aligning the several pieces of plate set out on the sideboard.