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单词 lapsed
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lapsedadj.

Brit. /lapst/, U.S. /læpst/
Etymology: < lapse v. + -ed suffix1.
1.
a. That has glided away, dropped out of use, disappeared from sight, or fallen into decay.
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the world > action or operation > adversity > [adjective] > falling from prosperous or thriving condition > having fallen
forlornc1386
fallen1550
ruinous1558
ruinate1562
declined1591
ruinated1592
ruined1596
lapsed1667
prolapsed1698
broken-down1816
decadent1837
the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > disadvantage > uselessness > non-use > [adjective] > fallen out of use or obsolete
oldOE
outworna1522
stale1550
obsolete1579
overgone1581
overworn1603
disused1611
exolete1611
absoletea1613
worn-out1612
outdated1616
lapsed1667
exploded1709
supersededa1831
rinky-dink1913
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost iii. 176 Once more I will renew His lapsed powers, though forfeit and enthrall'd By sin to foul exorbitant desires. View more context for this quotation
1824 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto XVI xxi. 71 A monk..appeared, Now in the moonlight, and now lapsed in shade.
1854 H. Miller Schools & Schoolmasters (1857) iv. 66 During the lapsed century the waves had largely encroached on the low flat shores.
1881 Times 2 Feb. 9/2 The House of Commons must recover its lapsed authority.
1890 John Bull 5 Apr. 231/1 It is probable that the Lapsed custom of an annual dinner will be revived.
b. That has been let slip incautiously. Obsolete.
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1741 I. Watts Improvem. Mind i. ix. 141 Let there be..no sudden Seizure of a lapsed Syllable to play upon it.
2. Of a person: Fallen or sunk into a lower grade, or a depraved condition; esp. fallen into sin, or from the faith (cf. collapsed adj. 3); applied in Historical use to Christians who denied the faith during persecution. lapsed classes, lapsed masses: those who have dropped out of social standing. Also absol.
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society > faith > aspects of faith > apostasy > [adjective]
forraughtc1175
renayedc1380
apostate1382
apostasied1393
relapse?a1425
departed1439
renegate1488
retractive1509
apostatical1532
shrinking1535
apostatatec1540
runagate1558
apostatic1583
apostatous1588
collapsed1609
renegado1612
recreant1613
apotactical1615
apostatized1629
apostating1630
lapsed1638
apostated1642
apostatizing1652
renegade1664
diabolonian1682
backsliding1816
relapsing1864
backslidden1871
the mind > goodness and badness > wrongdoing > sinfulness > [adjective] > fallen into
lapsed1638
society > morality > moral evil > wrong conduct > [adjective] > lapsing or lapsed
tripping1577
delapsed1622
lapsed1638
lapsing1667
the world > time > relative time > the past > [adjective]
formerc1160
apassedc1314
past1340
preterite1340
eldera1400
elderna1400
eldernlya1400
bygone1424
bypast1452
ancient1490
by-runa1522
bywenta1522
spent1528
departed1552
forepassed1557
preter1578
by-come1592
worn-out1594
preterlapsed1599
foregone1609
worna1616
elapseda1644
lapsed1702
surpassed1725
gone-by1758
back1808
old-time1865
by-flown1884
society > society and the community > social class > [noun] > elevation or exaltation in rank > those reduced in social standing
lapsed classes1854
lapsed masses1887
1638 Penit. Conf. (1657) iii. 36 Such a lapsed sinner may not be incapable of pardon.
1664 H. More Modest Enq. Myst. Iniquity xiv. 48 But this plea is in common with the Heathens and lapsed Christians.
1668 H. More Divine Dialogues (1713) i. xvi. 35 That the standing Spirits hugely exceed the number of the lapsed.
1677 A. Horneck Great Law Consideration (1704) iv. 98 Free you from the rubbish the lapsed posterity of Adam lies groaning under.
1702 L. Echard Gen. Eccl. Hist. iii. v. 406 His greatest Concern was for the Case of the Lapsed.
1706 G. Stanhope Paraphr. Epist. & Gospels III. 294 The Author of all Goodness to lapsed Man.
1754 S. Richardson Hist. Sir Charles Grandison (ed. 6) II. 231 May not virtue itself pity the lapsed?
1823 C. Lamb Praise of Chimney-sweepers in Elia 255 Good blood, and gentle conditions, derived from lost ancestry, and a lapsed pedigree.
1833 E. Burton Lect. Eccl. Hist. ii. xxv. 327 These lapsed Christians, as they were called,..retained their belief in Christ.
1854 H. Miller Schools & Schoolmasters (1857) xvi. 367 It almost necessarily takes its place among the lapsed classes.
1865 E. B. Pusey Eirenicon 198 The lapsed were restored under the prospect of renewed persecution.
1887 Pall Mall Gaz. 8 Mar. 2/2 To facilitate the elevation of the lapsed masses.
3. Said of a fief, devise, or legacy, the right to which has passed from the original holder, devisee, or legatee.
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society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > right to succeed to title, position, or estate > reversion > [adjective] > lapsed
lapsed1617
society > law > transfer of property > types of transfer > [adjective] > transferred by charter or deed > lapsed
lapsed1767
1617 J. Minsheu Ἡγεμὼν είς τὰς γλῶσσας: Ductor in Linguas at Lapse That Benefice is in lapse or lapsed, whereunto he that ought to present, hath omitted or slipped his opportunities.
1767 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. (new ed.) II. 513 If the legatee dies before the testator, the legacy is a lost or lapsed legacy, and shall sink into the residuum.
1806 W. Cruise Digest Laws Eng. Real Prop. VI. 166 The devise was lapsed.
1816 W. Scott Antiquary II. iii. 84 His lands..were reassumed by the emperor as a lapsed fief.
1896 T. F. Tout Edward I (ed. 2) i. 16 The bestowal of lapsed fiefs was among the most important of the prerogatives of the Crown.

Draft additions 1997

b. transferred. No longer an adherent to or practitioner of a particular (secular) principle, doctrine, etc. Frequently jocular.
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the mind > language > speech > agreement > observance > non-observance or breach > [adjective]
unordaina1425
vow-breaking1533
vowless1620
violatory1687
violative1745
repudiatory1846
lapsed1959
1959 Times 13 Feb. 13/4 Egon Wellesz, a lapsed Schönbergian.
1974 ‘G. Black’ Golden Cockatrice iii. 58 I have to meet a lapsed Maoist.
1978 P. Fuller Jrnl. 28 Mar. in Marches Past (1986) 21 If I were to..look out of the windows behind me on either side of ‘Reveries of a Lapsed Narcissist’, I would see a lake surrounded by weeping willows.
1979 A. J. P. Taylor in Observer 29 July 9/3 I am a lapsed crank. I no longer have the enthusiasm for crankiness I had when I was young.
1992 Washington City Paper 21 Feb. 65/1 With the guidance of a lapsed psychiatrist..the couple come to suspect that they are the reincarnated Strausses.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1902; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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adj.1617
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