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intermitted, ppl. a.|ɪntəˈmɪtɪd|
[f. intermit v.1 + -ed1.]
Broken off or stopped for a time; interrupted.
a1542Wyatt Death C'tess Pembroke Poems (1810) 421/2 Yet once againe, my Muse, I pardon pray, Thine intermitted song if I repeate. 1615G. Sandys Trav. 242 ætna..yet smoking..and vomiting intermitted flames. 1713Young Last Day ii. 13 Again the trumpets intermitted sound Rolls the wide circuit of creation round. 1873Mrs. Whitney Other Girls xiv. 187 The heavy bell swung out slow, intermitted peals.
Hence interˈmittedly adv., in an intermitted, broken, or interrupted manner.
1829Scott Demonol. i. 42 The cry of a distant pack of hounds, sounding intermittedly. 1846Dana Zooph. (1848) 509 Polyps intermittedly coralligenous at base. |