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relaps into a stupor, into vice, or into barbarism; -- sometimes in a good sense; as, to relapse into slumber after being disturbed. That task performed, [preachers] relapse into themselves. Cowper.

One who relapses. Bp. Hall.

A check; a relapse; a discouragement; a setback.

pm incumbrances, distress, or entanglements; to become free. [He that clears at once will relapse; for finding himself out of straits, he will revert to the customs; but he that cleareth by degrees induceth a habit of frugality. Bacon.

A relapse, or return of a disease.

Not liable to relapse; secure. Dr. H. More.

A falling back or descending a second time; a relapse. W. Montagu.

The state or quality of being recidivous; relapse, specif. (Criminology),

Marked by a relapse; falling back; tending to return to a former worse state. Relapsing fever (Med.), an acute, epidemic, contagious fever, which prevails also endemically in Ireland, Russia, and some other regions. It is marked by one or two remissions of the fever, by articular and muscular pains, and by the presence…

A backset; a check; a repulse; a reverse; a relapse. [Colloq. U.S.]

A sudden illness or relapse, often attended with fever, which attacks women in childbed. [Scot.]