Sekirov Dictionary

interlapse

noun 2
verb 2
forms 3

noun2

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(no longer used) The time between two events.
- […] after a short interlapse of time [the salts] produce Coughs, Ptisicks, and at last a Pulmonique Consumption. — 1666
(no longer used, rare) The distance between two things.

verb2

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(no longer used) To elapse (between two events).
- But the time which has interlapsed since the adoption of the resolution has given us indubitable evidence of the course of policy which the President is resolved to pursue. — 1821
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(no longer used, rare) To be situated between.
- But when the pool, save for the margins, was all one wave of interlapsing gold and silver, the shadow-shape at last raised a shaggy peaked head. — 1895

forms

interlapsed · interlapsing · interlapses

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