Word Meanings - ELAPSION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The act of elapsing.

ELAPS
A genus of venomous snakes found both in America and the Old World. Many species are known. See Coral snake, under Coral.
ELAPSE
To slip or glide away; to pass away silently, as time; -- used chiefly in reference to time. Eight days elapsed; at length a pilgrim came. Hoole.
ELAPSION
The act of elapsing.
DELAPSE
To pass down by inheritance; to lapse. Which Anne derived alone the right, before all other, Of the delapsed crown from Philip. Drayton.
RELAPSING
Marked by a relapse; falling back; tending to return to a former worse state. Relapsing fever , an acute, epidemic, contagious fever, which prevails also endemically in Ireland, Russia, and some other regions. It is marked by one or two remissions
RELAPSER
One who relapses. Bp. Hall.
IRRELAPSABLE
Not liable to relapse; secure. Dr. H. More.
DELAPSATION
See RAY
LAELAPS
A genus of huge, carnivorous, dinosaurian reptiles from the Cretaceous formation of the United States. They had very large hind legs and tail, and are supposed to have been bipedal. Some of the species were about eighteen feet high.
RELAPSE
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. (more info) 1. To slip or slide back, in a literal sense; to turn back.
DELAPSION
A falling down, or out of place; prolapsion.