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Cease   /sis/   Listen
verb
Cease  v. t.  To put a stop to; to bring to an end. "But he, her fears to cease Sent down the meek-eyed peace." "Cease, then, this impious rage."



Cease  v. i.  (past & past part. ceased; pres. part. ceasing)  
1.
To come to an end; to stop; to leave off or give over; to desist; as, the noise ceased. "To cease from strife."
2.
To be wanting; to fail; to pass away. "The poor shall never cease out of the land."
Synonyms: To intermit; desist; stop; abstain; quit; discontinue; refrain; leave off; pause; end.



noun
Cease  n.  Extinction. (Obs.)






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"Cease" Quotes from Famous Books



... funds, and more into the structure of the lessons and studies, and the relationships, applications, and value of the ideas secured or attempted during the daily sessions of the school classes. It will be a great day for us, when our principals and schoolmasters cease to put forward so prominently, at the end of the quarter or term, its smartest compositions and declamations, and when the over-generous public shall begin to attend on 'examinations' with a less allowance ...
— Continental Monthly, Vol. I, No. V, May, 1862 - Devoted To Literature And National Policy • Various

... proceedings of the House as unconstitutional'—While in a firm and swelling voice I pronounced distinctly these words, the Speaker and about two thirds of the House cried, 'order! order! order!' till it became a perfect yell. I paused a moment for it to cease and then said, 'a direct violation of the Constitution of the United States.' While speaking these words with loud, distinct, and slow (p. 259) articulation, the bawl of 'order! order!' resounded again from two thirds of the House. The Speaker, with agonizing lungs, screamed, ...
— John Quincy Adams - American Statesmen Series • John. T. Morse

... It is not a question of men, but of principles. The study of the monuments of art is one thing, their analysis, their criticism, their comparison, is one of the most attractive, the most fascinating, the most stimulating, the most absorbing of studies, one that I shall never cease commending in the most earnest way to all those persons to whom scholarship is dear and to whom it is a question of recommending a study which is worthy of their most earnest and hearty devotion, but it is not the study of practical art, ...
— The American Architect and Building News, Vol. 27, Jan-Mar, 1890 • Various

... hand on the young man's shoulder, continued in mild yet impressive accents: "My friend, remember that the doubter and opposer of God, is also the doubter and opposer of his own well-being. Let this unnatural and useless combat of Human Reason, against Divine Instinct cease within you—you, who as a poet are bound to EQUALIZE your nature that it may the more harmoniously fulfil its high commission. You know what one of your modern writers says of life? ... that it is a 'Dream in which we clutch at shadows as though they ...
— Ardath - The Story of a Dead Self • Marie Corelli

... Africa by that noble and brotherly heart. I could not but feel that that those prayers had had a wider reach than the mere extinction of slavery in one land or country, and that their benign influence would not cease till not a slave was left upon ...
— Autographs for Freedom, Volume 2 (of 2) (1854) • Various


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