delapse

English

Etymology

Latin

Verb

delapse (third-person singular simple present delapses, present participle delapsing, simple past and past participle delapsed)

  1. (obsolete) To pass down by inheritance; to lapse.
    • Drayton
      Which Anne derived alone the right, before all other,
      Of the delapsed crown from Philip.
  2. (obsolete) To sink down.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for delapse in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Anagrams

Latin

Participle

dēlapse

  1. vocative masculine singular of dēlapsus
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