a. [f. L. types *lapsābilis, *lapsibilis, f. L. lapsāre (see LAPSE v.) or laps-, ppl. stem of lābī to fall, slip.]
1. Liable to pass or change; liable to err or fall. Const. into. ? Obs.
1678. Cudworth, Intell. Syst., I. iv. § 36. 565. No particular Created Spirits [are] absolutely in their own nature impeccable, but lapsible into vitious habits. Ibid., v. 793. The Former [Demons] are Lapsable, into Aereal Bodies only, and no further.
1702. Pres. State Jacobitism, 26. Arguments for Compassion may be drawn from the lapsable Estate of Mankind.
2. Law. Liable to lapse or become forfeited.
1751. Laws N. Carolina (1791), 147. Which said Lots, by Reason of the Proviso in the said Deed mentioned, will soon become lapsable.
