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RELAPSE, adj. Sc. usage, of an offender against church discipline: having committed a fault twice. Cf. Dulapse, Trilapse. Also as a n., an offender for the second time.Bnff. 1704 W. Cramond Ch. Fordyce (1886) 55:
If they be relapse the time to be doubled.Cai. 1714 D. Beaton Eccl. Hist. Cai. (1909) 143:
A Reference from the Session of Dunnet by Mr. Oswald, anent Isobel Anderson, bearing that she is relapse in fornication in his paroch.Bte. 1722 Session Bk. Rothesay (1931) 366:
Interrogate anent her sin . . . and her being a relapse too.
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