ppl. a. [f. as prec. + -ED.]
1. Lapsed, past, gone by.
1644. Quarles, Sheph. Orac., I. Such may have pardons for elapsed crimes.
a. 1774. Goldsm., Grecian Hist., I. 223. The first campaign being elapsed.
1790. Marsden, in Phil. Trans., LXXX. 573. The Hindoos compute from the elapsed year.
1805. Foster, Ess., I. I. 6. The elapsed periods of life.
1854. H. Miller, Sch. & Schm., xvi. (1857), 366. The elapsed half of the present century.
† 2. Suffered to slip by, neglected. Obs.
1649. Jer. Taylor, Gt. Exemp., II. viii. 86. Such great acts … comprise the elapsed duty of many moneths.
† 3. Of angels: Fallen. Obs.
1665. Wither, Lord’s Prayer, 27. The Prince of the Spirits elapsed began to Usurp a part of God’s Kingdom.
