Relapse

re-laps', v. t. [-lapsed (-lapsf), -lapsing.] To slip or slide back; to fall back, return to a former state or practice, — generally in a bad sense. — n. A sliding or falling back, esp. into a former bad state, either of body or morals.— Relapsing fever. (Pathol. ) An acute, epidemic, contagious fever, usually not fatal, which prevails endemically also in Ireland, Ru ia, and elsewhere: it is marked by 1 or 2 remi ions of the fever, and by the presence during the paroxysm of a spiral bacterium in the blood; famine error. fever. — Relaps'er, n. One who relapses into vice or Relate, re-lat', v. t. To recount, narrate, recite, tell over; to ally by connection or kindred. — v. i. To stand in some relation, have bearing or concern, pertain, refer. — Relat'er, n. — Rela'tion, n. Act of relating or telling; that related; narrative of facts; state of being related or of referring; relative quality or condition; connection by consanguinity or affinity; a person connected by consanguinity or affinity; Kindred; kinsman; kinswoman. — Relational, a. Having relation or kindred; indicating or specifying some relation. — Relationship, n. State of being related by kindred, affinity, or other alliance. — Rel'ative, -tiv, a. Having relation; respecting; pertaining; arising from relation, or from connection with, or reference to, something else; not absolute. (Gram.) Indicating or expre ing relation.— w. One who, or that which, relates to, or is considered in its relation to, something else; a person connected by; linger or ink, tiien, boNboN, chair, get. blood or affinity. (Gram.) A word relating representing another word or phrase, called its cedent. 354