delapse

English

Etymology

(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin

Verb

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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

Anagrams

• elapsed, pleased, sepaled

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Latin

Participle

(deprecated template usage) dēlāpse

1. vocative masculine singular of dēlāpsus