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Webster 1913 Edition

Verb.

[

imp. & p. p.

Elapsed

;

p. pr. & vb. n.

Elapsing

[L.

elapsus

, p. p. of

elabi

to glide away;

out +

labi

to fall, slide. See

To slip or glide away; to pass away silently, as time; – used chiefly in reference to time.

Eight days

elapsed

; at length a pilgrim came.

Hoole.

Verb.

elaps'. [L. elapsus, from elabor,labor, to slide.]

To slide away; to slip or glide away; to pass away silently, as time; applied chiefly or wholly to time. [Instead of elapse,the noun, we use lapse.]