Meaning
RELAPSE, v.i. relaps'. [L. relapsus, relabor, to slide back; re and labor, to slide.]
1. To slip or slide back; to return.
2. To fall back; to return to a former state or practice; as, to relapse into vice or error after amendment.
3. To fall back or return from recovery or a convalescent state; as, to relapse into a fever.
RELAPSE, n. relaps'. A sliding or falling back, particularly into a former bad state, either of body or of morals; as a relapse into a disease from a convalescent state; a relapse into a vicious course of life. [In the sense of a person relapsing, not used.]
