lapsana, lamps an a

[Latin lapsana, lamps an a, lampsanium; Gr. laps anē, lamps ané, an edible plant, probably a crucifer.] Bot.: A genus of Composites, the typical one of the tribe Lapsanese (q. v.). Four species are known. lăpse, s. [Lat. lapsus , from labor =to glide: Fr. laps ; Sp. lap so .] IMG:content-0365.png:[blocks in formation] 1. Eng . Eccles . Law : (See extract.) " Lapse is a species of forfeiture, whereby the right of presentation to a church accrues to the ordinary by neglect of the patron to present; to the metropolitan, by neglect of the ordinary; and to the crown by neglect of the metropolitan. The term, in which the title to present by lapse accrues from the one to the other succe ively, is six calendar months."- Black stone : Comment ., bk. ii., ch. 15. 2. Theol .: A term sometimes used as synonymous with fall, and applied to the fall of Adam. lăpse, v . i . & t . [Lat. lap so to slip, freq. of labor =to glide (pa. par. lapsus ).] A. Intransitive: 1. To fall, to slide, to slip. 2. To glide; to fall back. The Church allowed the lapsed to be restored to Christian communion after a long course of penance; the Donatists denied all such restoration. Those who apostatized by actual sacrifice to idols were called sacrificati or thurificati ; those who, without actually sacrificing, purchased a certificate that they had done so were called libellatici ; others were known as acta facientes , because they allowed their names to appear in the official list, as having obeyed the imperial edict. Cyprian, de Lapsis , is the chief authority on the subject. lapsed-devise, s. Law : A devise which lapses or becomes void by reason of the devisee's death during the testator's lifetime, or by reason of such devise being contrary to law. lapsed-legacy, s. Law: (See extract.) "If the legatee dies before the testator, the legacy is a lost or lapsed -legacy, and shall sink into the residuum, except it be a gift to a child or other i ue of the testator, which does not lapse if the legatee die leaving i ue which survives the testator. And if a contingent legacy be left to any one, as when he attains, or if he attains, the age of twenty-one, and he dies before that time, it is a lapsed legacy ."-Black stone: Comment ., bk. ii., ch. 28.