adjective. No longer active or practicing.

adjective. Having slipped downward, backward, or away; having lost position, privilege, etc., by neglect; -- restricted to figurative uses.

adjective. Ineffectual, void, or forfeited

adjective. 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.

adjective. undefined

verb. Simple past tense and past participle of lapse.

adjective. no longer active or practicing

"There were never any estates; the title lapsed; the present earldom is a new creation, not in the same family at all."

irreligious  lapsed legacy  

collapsed  elapsed  relapsed  

Adamic  Circean  ago  animal  animalistic  

lapse