INFRALAPSARIAN

In′fra‐lap‐sa″ri‐an (?), n. [[Infra + lapse: cf. F. infralapsaire. See Lapse.]] (Eccl. Hist.) One of that class of Calvinists who consider the decree of election as contemplating the apostasy as past and the elect as being at the time of election in a fallen and guilty state; — opposed to Supralapsarian. The former considered the election of grace as a remedy for an existing evil; the latter regarded the fall as a part of God's original purpose in regard to men.