About The Word Lapsed
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Lapsed
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What's The Definition Of Lapsed?
[adj] no longer active or practicing; "a lapsed Catholic"
Synonyms | Synonyms for Lapsed: irreligious | nonchurchgoing Related Terms | Find terms related to Lapsed: Adamic | ago | animal | animalistic | antiquated | antique | apostate | atheistic | backsliding | beastlike | beastly | bestial | blasphemous | blown over | bodily | brutal | brute | brutish | by | bygone | bypast | carnal | carnal-minded | Circean | coarse | dated | dead | dead and buried | deceased | defunct | departed | earthy | elapsed | erring | expired | extinct | fallen | fallen from grace | finished | fleshly | forgotten | frail | gone | gone glimmering | gone-by | gross | has-been | impious | impure | infirm | irrecoverable | irreligious | irreverent | material | materialistic | no more | nonspiritual | obsolete | of easy virtue | orgiastic | over | passe | passed | passed away | past | peccable | physical | postlapsarian | prodigal | profanatory | profane | recidivist | recidivistic | recreant | renegade | run out | sacrilegious | swinish | unangelic | unchaste | unclean | undutiful | ungodly | ungood | unrighteous | unsaintly | unspiritual | unvirtuous | vanished | virtueless | wanton | wayward | weak | wound up See Also | Lapsed In Webster's Dictionary \Lapsed\, a.
1. Having slipped downward, backward, or away; having lost
position, privilege, etc., by neglect; -- restricted to
figurative uses.
Once more I will renew His lapsed powers, though
forfeit. --Milton.
2. Ineffectual, void, or forfeited; as, a lapsed policy of
insurance; a lapsed legacy.
{Lapsed devise}, {Lapsed legacy} (Law), a devise, or legacy,
which fails to take effect in consequence of the death of
the devisee, or legatee, before that of the testator, or
for ether cause. --Wharton (Law Dict.).
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