interlapse

noun 2verb 2

Definitions

noun

1

The time between two events.

[…] after a short interlapse of time [the salts] produce Coughs, Ptisicks, and at last a Pulmonique Consumption.

A part of the time they spent in senseless intoxication; and the lucid interlapse of sobriety was occupied only in mourning over the recollection of past importance, and trembling at the prospect of speedy annihilation.

2

The distance between two things.

There is an exquisite continuous gradation and interlapse of hue between the silver-grays, the reddish-browns, and the dull yellows of the honeysuckles, the ruddy apple, the auburn tresses of Venus, her lips and eyes, the red and pink roses, the yellow butterflies, and the dark-green background.

verb

1

To elapse (between two events).

the space of time that interlapsed betwixt the overthrow of Hamilton, and our solemne denouncing against them for that hostilitie

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, 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.

2

To be situated between.

1895, William Sharp (as Fiona Macleod), The Mountain Lovers, London: John Lane, Chapter 1, p. 13, 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.

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