relapsed, ppl. a.
(rɪˈlæpst)
[f. prec. + -ed1.]
Fallen back into a previous condition.
| 1570 Foxe A. & M. (ed. 2) 943/1 Asked..why he should not..be pronounced a relapsed hereticke. 1607 Topsell Four-f. Beasts (1658) 145 They..recover for a small time, and then fall into a relapsed malady. 1683 Apol. Prot. France ii. 13 The Prisons..are at this present filled with this sort of pretended Relapsed Persons. 1777 Watson Philip II, xx. (1793) III. 49 A relapsed heretic and a determined enemy of their holy faith. 1850 O. Winslow Inner Life 164 A relapsed state of the spiritual life. |