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Definition of Delapse
1. v. i. To pass down by inheritance; to lapse.
Definition of Delapse
1. Verb. (obsolete) To pass down by inheritance; to lapse. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Delapse
1. to sink down [v DELAPSED, DELAPSING, DELAPSES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Delapse
Literary usage of Delapse
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Christian Examiner (1839)
"... nor introduce what is new; but will be a restorer only of what useful truths
or practices may seem to be lost in the long delapse of ages. ..."
2. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1856)
"... who has n't got at least one acquaintance among that dozen or fifteen literati.
Under cover of this immense multitude I delapse into the entry, ..."
3. Proceedings of the American Pharmaceutical Association at the Annual Meeting by American Pharmaceutical Association, National Pharmaceutical Convention, American Pharmaceutical Association Meeting (1886)
"... distinguished from the old variety in that it does not lose its ammonia and
delapse as rapidly, but retains its clear, hard, granular, crystalline form. ..."
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