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lapsed
[ lapst ]
adjective
- expired; voided; terminated:
a lapsed insurance policy.
- no longer committed to or following the tenets of a particular belief, obligation, position, etc.:
a lapsed Catholic.
Other Word Forms
- ܲ· adjective
Example Sentences
That figure includes "lapsed" patients who have not attended their dentist for some time, and have fallen off the registration list.
Like many lapsed Catholics, my relationship to the Church is complicated.
That other charity, the Arcadia Firefighters Foundation, is in “delinquent status” with the state attorney general’s office and also barred from accepting donations due to lapsed registration, according to publicly available filings.
As a lapsed Catholic who never studied the Bible, I was at first skeptical that this deep immersion into Jesus’ life could have any particular relevance for me.
An accomplished journalist for a New Yorker-style publication with a specialty in culture and race, he’s a lapsed Muslim, unattached and mourning his late father but soldiering on.
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