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cessation|sɛˈseɪʃən|
[ad. L. cessātiōn-em, n. of action f. cessāre to cease. Practically treated as n. of action from Eng. cease; see -ation.]
1. Ceasing, discontinuance, stoppage; either permanent or temporary.
a1400Cov. Myst. 107 Withowte cessacion They crye. 1580North Plutarch (1676) 985 The Cessation of the Oracles. 1615G. Sandys Trav. 7 The cessation of trafficke with the Mahometans. 1628Sir R. Le Grys tr. Barclay's Argenis 128 These are, as it were cessations from Armes, with which sometimes wee doe beguile our common griefs. 1641Baker Chron. Hen. VI an. 1450 (R.) Jack Cade affirming no cessation of arms, unless the King in person would hear the grievances of the subject. 1725Pope Odyss. xx. 387 A long cessation of discourse ensu'd. 1748Anson Voyage iii. i. 301 The cessation of the storm. 1876Grant Burgh Sch. Scotl. ii. v. 182 Cessation from work in all the schools.
†b. ellipt. = Cessation of or from arms (see in prec.): suspension of hostilities; armistice, truce: also in comb. as cessation-breaker. Obs.
1645King's Cab. Opened in Select. Harleian Misc. (1793) 353 The eminent inevitable necessity, which caused me to make the Irish cessation. 1653Holcroft Procopius ii. 46 They gave Hostages for observing the Cessation. 1736Carte Ormonde II. 285 To join with general Preston for suppressing and reducing the cessation-breakers. 1755― Hist. Eng. IV. 479 After the cessation for that county [Cheshire] and Lancashire had been annulled.
†2. A ceasing to hold office. Obs.
1460J. Capgrave Chron. 272 On Mihelmesse day, the Kyng..red the Act of his Cessacion before these lordis. 1640Bp. Hall Episc. ii. §12 If any Bishop..shall there keep him against this decreed Cessation, Let him..be barred from Communion.
†3. Desistence from action; inactivity, idleness.
1603Florio Montaigne iii. x. (1632) 576 They accuse my cessation, when as all the world was convicted of too much doing. 1613R. C. Table Alph., Cessation, rest, idleness. 1697Dryden Virg. Georg. i. 109 The spent Earth may gather heart again; And, better'd by Cessation, bear the Grain. |