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Intermit   Listen
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Intermit  v. t.  (past & past part. intermitted; pres. part. intermitting)  To cause to cease for a time, or at intervals; to interrupt; to suspend. "Pray to the gods to intermit the plague."






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"Intermit" Quotes from Famous Books



... follows: We breakfasted at eight, lunched at twelve, dined at four, took tea at half past six, and from nine till eleven gentlemen had any article for supper they saw fit to order. This is quite enough of time for taking care of the outer man, and any one careful of his health will be sure to intermit one or two of these seasons. All the meals were excellent, and the supplies liberal. The tables present a similar appearance to those of a first-class hotel. In regard to our passengers, I think I can say, with confidence, ...
— Young Americans Abroad - Vacation in Europe: Travels in England, France, Holland, - Belgium, Prussia and Switzerland • Various

... regular Indian correspondent, and a letter from the Viceroy in this year begs him not to intermit his communications whenever he could make time to write. To Lord Ripon ...
— The Life of the Rt. Hon. Sir Charles W. Dilke V1 • Stephen Gwynn

... that, upon the many hardships which the Romans underwent, Pompey could not but admire not only at the other instances of the Jews' fortitude, but especially that they did not at all intermit their religious services, even when they were encompassed with darts on all sides; for, as if the city were in full peace, their daily sacrifices and purifications, and every branch of their religious worship, was still performed ...
— The Wars of the Jews or History of the Destruction of Jerusalem • Flavius Josephus



Words linked to "Intermit" :   interrupt, cut off, break, take ten, pause, take five, disrupt, take a breather



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