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t. & i. [Pref. re-, and Eng. land, v. (q. v.)] A. Trans.: To land again; to set or put again on land or shore. "Clandestinely relanded in some other part of the country."-Smith: Wealth of Nations , bk. v., ch. ii. B. In trans.: To go on shore again after having embarked. rě-lăps-a-ble, adj . [English relaps (e); -able .] Capable of relapsing; liable to relapse. rě-lăpse', v . i. [Lat. relapsus , pa. par. of relabor = to slide back: re -back, and labor to glide.] 1. To slip back; to fall back; to turn back. "You slip your hold, and change your side, Relapsing from a nece ary guide." Dryden: Hind and Panther , ii. 486. 2. To fall or slip back into a former bad state or practice; to backslide. "They enter into the justified state, and so continue all along, unle they relapse."-Water land: Works , ix. 464. 3. To fall back from a state of recovery or convalescence; to suffer a relapse in health. rě-lăpse', s. [RELAPSE, v.] 1. A falling or sliding back, especially into a former bad state of morals, practice, or health; regre ion from convalescence or recovery to ill health or sickne ; backsliding. "I dare defy the malice of my stars To cause a new relapse into distemper." Tuke: Adventures of Five Hours , v. *2. One who has fallen back into vice or error; spec if., one who has fallen back into error after having recanted it. rě-lăpsed, a. [RELAPSE, v.] Roman Church : Applied to a heretic who, after recanting his errors, relapses into them again. "Indeuouring himselfe to declare that Eugenius was not relapsed."-Fox: Martyrs, p. 615.