[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

lapse \lapse\, v. i. imp.  p. p. lapsed; p. pr.  vb. n.
   lapsing.
   1. to pass slowly and smoothly downward, backward, or away;
      to slip downward, backward, or away; to glide; -- mostly
      restricted to figurative uses.
      1913 webster

            a tendency to lapse into the barbarity of those
            northern nations from whom we are descended.
                                                  --swift.
      1913 webster

            homer, in his characters of vulcan and thersites,
            has lapsed into the burlesque character. --addison.
      1913 webster

   2. to slide or slip in moral conduct; to fail in duty; to
      fall from virtue; to deviate from rectitude; to commit a
      fault by inadvertence or mistake.
      1913 webster

            to lapse in fullness
            is sorer than to lie for need.        --shak.
      1913 webster

   3. law
      a to fall or pass from one proprietor to another, or
          from the original destination, by the omission,
          negligence, or failure of some one, as a patron, a
          legatee, etc.
      b to become ineffectual or void; to fall.
          1913 webster

                if the archbishop shall not fill it up within
                six months ensuing, it lapses to the king.
                                                  --ayliffe.
          1913 webster
see also:
lapsed lapsing 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

lapsed \lapsed\, a.
   1. having slipped downward, backward, or away; having lost
      position, privilege, etc., by neglect; -- restricted to
      figurative uses.
      1913 webster

            once more i will renew
            his lapsed powers, though forfeit.    --milton.
      1913 webster

   2. ineffectual, void, or forfeited; as, a lapsed policy of
      insurance; a lapsed legacy.
      1913 webster

   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 other cause. --wharton law dict..
      1913 webster
see also:
lapsed devise lapsed legacy 

[3] : WordNet (r) 2.0

lapsed
     adj : no longer active or practicing; "a lapsed catholic" syn: nonchurchgoing
see also:
nonchurchgoing 

[4] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

94 moby thesaurus words for "lapsed":
   adamic, circean, ago, animal, animalistic, antiquated, antique,
   apostate, atheistic, backsliding, beastlike, beastly, bestial,
   blasphemous, blown over, bodily, brutal, brute, brutish, by,
   bygone, bypast, carnal, carnal-minded, 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

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