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Webster 1913 Edition

Relapsing

Re-laps′ing

,
Adj.
Marked by a relapse; falling back; tending to return to a former worse state.
Relapsing fever
(Med.)
,
an acute, epidemic, contagious fever, which prevails also endemically in Ireland, Russia, and some other regions. It is marked by one or two remissions of the fever, by articular and muscular pains, and by the presence, during the paroxism of spiral bacterium (
Spirochaete
) in the blood. It is not usually fatal. Called also
famine fever
, and
recurring fever
.

Webster 1828 Edition

Relapsing

RELAPS'ING

,
ppr.
Sliding or falling back, as into disease or vice.

Definition 2024

relapsing

relapsing

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Verb

relapsing

  1. present participle of relapse

Noun

relapsing ‎(plural relapsings)

  1. (archaic) A relapse.
    • 1822, The New Monthly Magazine and Literary Journal (volume 6, page 10)
      […] the silent grief beyond the power of words—the generous consolations of the noble sister—the shrinkings of the poor criminal, and his relapsings into a gentler penitence […]

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