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Definition of Elapsing
1. elapse [v] - See also: elapse
Lexicographical Neighbors of Elapsing
Literary usage of Elapsing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The House Fly, Disease Carrier: An Account of Its Dangerous Activities and by Leland Ossian Howard (1911)
"... does not give the exact dates of this particular observation, and it may have
been on an October generation, which would have hibernated. Time elapsing ..."
2. A Manual of Medical Jurisprudence and Toxicology by Henry Cadwalader Chapman (1892)
"... Adipocere—Length of Time elapsing Since Death—Remote and Proximate Cause of
Death—Symptoms and Post-mortem Appearance of Death from Disease of Brain, ..."
3. An Institute of the Law of Scotland: In Four Books : in the Order of Sir by John Erskine, George Mackenzie, James Ivory (1828)
"... decree is generally awarded for the interest from the time at which the account
ought to have been regularly paid, viz. after the elapsing of ..."
4. A Brief Course in the Teaching Process by George Drayton Strayer (1911)
"The periods elapsing between repetitions or series of repetitions should be
gradually lengthened: The fixing of a habit so that it shall always thereafter ..."
5. Modern Mechanism: Exhibiting the Latest Progress in Machines, Motors, and by D. Appleton and Company (1892)
"... into the center of the water current in the tunnel and noting the time elapsing
before the coloring appeared at the discharge outlet, 2584 ft. distant. ..."
6. Modern Mechanism: Exhibiting the Latest Progress in Machines, Motors, and by D. Appleton and Company (1892)
"... into the center of the water current in the tunnel and noting the time elapsing
before the coloring appeared at the discharge outlet, 2534 ft. distant. ..."
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