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.
   • 1612, Michael Drayton, “(please specify the chapter)”, in [John Selden], editor, Poly-Olbion. Or A Chorographicall Description of Tracts, Riuers, Mountaines, Forests, and Other Parts of this Renowned Isle of Great Britaine, […], London: […] H[umphrey] L[ownes] for Mathew Lownes; I[ohn] Browne; I[ohn] Helme; I[ohn] Busbie, published 1613, →OCLC:

     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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• elapsed, pleased, sepaled

Latin

Participle

dēlāpse

1. vocative masculine singular of dēlāpsus