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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Elapse \E*lapse"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Elapsed}; p. pr & vb
n. {Elapsing}.] [L. elapsus p. p. of elabi to glide away e
out + labi to fall, slide. See {Lapse}.]
To slip or glide away to pass away silently, as time; --
used chiefly in reference to time.
Eight days elapsed; at length a pilgrim came --Hoole.
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