Synonyms:
lapsed, nonchurchgoing
Meaning: no longer active or practicing; "a lapsed Catholic"
Usage examples
She lapsed into thought.
"I almost feel as if your interest in her had lapsed," she said at last.
I took hold of Soap-stick, and lapsed immediately into the most hopeless despair.
He lapsed away, even for minutes, ringing those measured changes on his hands the whole time.
The first words were in Arabic, then the slow, soft voice lapsed into French, pure as the Vicomte's own.
This wild outbreak on the part of Sola so greatly surprised and shocked the other women, that, after a few words of general reprimand, they all lapsed into silence and were soon asleep.
The day lapsed slowly into twilight, and the two old people sat there in the gray evening, quietly, quietly, their hands in each other's hands, "keeping company," but now with nothing to separate them.
It lapsed for him with a strange steady sweep, and the oddest oddity was that it gave him, independently of the threat of much inconvenience, almost the only positive surprise his career, if career it could be called, had yet offered him.