Crossword clues for lapsing
lapsing
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Lapse \Lapse\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Lapsed; p. pr. & vb. n. Lapsing.]
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To pass slowly and smoothly downward, backward, or away; to slip downward, backward, or away; to glide; -- mostly restricted to figurative uses.
A tendency to lapse into the barbarity of those northern nations from whom we are descended.
--Swift.Homer, in his characters of Vulcan and Thersites, has lapsed into the burlesque character.
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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.
To lapse in fullness Is sorer than to lie for need.
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(Law)
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.
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To become ineffectual or void; to fall.
If the archbishop shall not fill it up within six months ensuing, it lapses to the king.
--Ayliffe.
Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of lapse English)
WordNet
Usage examples of "lapsing".
In default of these, minds were lapsing towards crude and base self-seeking and entirely individualistic aims.
In the chaos of popular superstitions, those Mysteries alone kept man from lapsing into absolute brutishness.
I recognise meanwhile, throughout the long earlier reach of the book, not only no deformities but, I think, a positively close and felicitous application of method, the preserved consistencies of which, often illusive, but never really lapsing, it would be of a certain diversion, and might be of some profit, to follow.
Intellectual-Principle: this demands only that the Soul dwell alone enshrined within that place of its choice, never lapsing towards the lower.