interlapse

== English == === Etymology === From inter- +‎ lapse. === Noun === interlapse (plural interlapses) (obsolete) The time between two events. Synonyms: gap, interval; see also Thesaurus:interim (obsolete, rare) The distance between two things. Synonyms: gap, separation; see also Thesaurus:interspace === Verb === interlapse (third-person singular simple present interlapses, present participle interlapsing, simple past and past participle interlapsed) (obsolete) To elapse (between two events). Synonym: intervene 1821, The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States, Sixteenth Congress—Second Session, Washington: Gales and Seaton, 1855, “South American States,” p. 1050,[7] But the time which has interlapsed since the adoption of the resolution has given us indubitable evidence of the course of policy which the President is resolved to pursue. 1916, Illinois Public Utilities Commission, Public Utilities Report, in Public Utilities Reports Annotated, Rochester, NY: The Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, p. 310,[9] We must at every step of the way outline to ourselves the necessary lengths of interlapsing time to do all these things, as well as the amount of labor to design, contract for, and actually build each structure. (obsolete, rare) To be situated between. 1895, William Sharp (as Fiona Macleod), The Mountain Lovers, London: John Lane, Chapter 1, p. 13,[10] But when the pool, save for the margins, was all one wave of interlapsing gold and silver, the shadow-shape at last raised a shaggy peaked head. === Anagrams === Alpestrine, Pearlstein, alpestrine, episternal, interpales, interpleas, planetrise, plenarties, presential, salipenter