1. To glide or slip; to pass by degrees; to slide or slip in moral conduct; to fail in duty; to fall or pass from one proprietor to another, by the negligence of the patron, &c.; to fall from a state of innocence, of truth, faith, or rectitude; to become void.

2. A gliding, flowing, or passing gradually, and as if imperceptibly; a smooth course; a slip; a fault; a failing in duty; deviation from truth or rectitude; the slip or omission of a patron to present a clerk to a benefice within six months after it becomes void; the fall or apostasy of Adam.

Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language By Nuttall, P.Austin

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