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collapsed, ppl. a.|kəˈlæpst|
[f. L. collāps-us pa. pple. + -ed: see prec.]
1. Fallen together, as the sides of any cavity, through external pressure, or loss of rigidity or support; see collapse v. 1.
1620Venner Via Recta vi. 104 Good for..a liuer collapsed by cold. 1782A. Monro Compar. Anat. (ed. 3) 36 The collapsed lungs of the fœtus. 1814Cary Dante's Inf. vii. 15 As sails, full spread..Drop suddenly collapsed, if the mast split. 1835–6Todd Cycl. Anat. I. 57/1 The adipose vesicles are empty and collapsed.
2. fig. Ruined, broken down, fallen into decay.
1610Mirr. Mag. 588 (R.) To reerect againe The ruines of his crowne's collapsed state. 1677W. Hubbard Narrative ii. 11 Matters of Government in those parts being since collapsed. 1688Miège Fr. Dict. s.v., Collapsed or decay'd, ruiné. As a collapsed Estate, un Bien ruiné. 1884Pall Mall G. 5 Dec. 4/2 Collapsed schemes of improvement.
†3. Fallen away from a religious or spiritual position, ‘lapsed’: used in 17th c. of ‘perverts’ to the Church of Rome, and also in the theological sense of ‘fallen’. Obs.
1609E. Hoby Let. Theoph. Higgins Ded. To all Romish collapsed Ladies of Great Bretanie. 1621Burton Anat. Mel. iii. iv. i. ii. (1676) 395/1 What else do our Papists?.. Whom do they begin with but collapsed Ladies? 1626L. Owen Spec. Jesuit. (1629) 15. a 1640 Jackson Creed xi. xviii. Wks. X. 357 The nature or disposition of collapsed angels. 1667J. Flavel Saint Indeed (1754) 81 The depravedness and corruption of man in his collapsed state.
4. Completely prostrated in the vital powers or functions (cf. collapse n. 2).
1843J. Martineau Chr. Life (1867) 330 To make the collapsed paralytic start up and run. 1865Carlyle Fredk. Gt. X. xxi. v. 77 Collapsed by debaucheries into stupor of insanity. 1886Fagge Princ. & Pract. Med. I. 292 The patient actually dies collapsed before there has been any evacuation.
b. Completely broken down in mental energy.
1656Blount Glossogr., Collapsed, slid, fallen down, discouraged. 1866Carlyle Remin. (1881) II. 291, I was..the most collapsed of men, and had no sunshine in my life. |