delapse

Latin dēlābor

delapse (third-person singular simple present delapses, present participle delapsing, simple past and past participle delapsed)

1. (obsolete, normally said of royalty) 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: […] [Humphrey Lownes] for M[athew] Lownes; I[ohn] Browne; I[ohn] Helme; I[ohn] Busbie, →OCLC:

     Which Anne derived alone the right, before all other,
     Of the delapsed crown from Philip.

2. (obsolete) To sink or fall down.

   rocks delapsed

   delapsing landslides

   delapsing leaves

• delapsion

• “delapse”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• elapsed, pleased, sepaled

dēlāpse

1. vocative masculine singular of dēlāpsus