单词 | cessation |
释义 | cessationn. 1. a. Ceasing, discontinuance, stoppage; either permanent or temporary. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > ceasing > [noun] lissc1000 ceasec1330 stintc1330 stinting1338 ceasinga1340 discontinuancea1398 cessationa1400 leaving-off?a1425 surceasingc1435 disusage1475 stop1483 staying1546 discontinuation1572 discontinuing1582 surcease1590 stintance1605 cessure1607 desisting1607 avocationa1617 desistance1632 sistencea1639 surceasementa1641 supersession1648 dispractice1673 breaking-off1683 estoppage1701 cess1703 cesser1809 shutdown1857 stoppage1865 shut-off1889 sign-off1919 a1400 Cov. Myst. 107 Withowte cessacion They crye. 1580 T. North tr. Plutarch Lives (1676) 985 The Cessation of the Oracles. 1615 G. Sandys Relation of Journey 7 The cessation of trafficke with the Mahometans. 1726 E. Fenton in A. Pope et al. tr. Homer Odyssey V. xx. 387 A long cessation of discourse ensu'd. 1748 B. Robins & R. Walter Voy. round World by Anson iii. i. 301 The cessation of the storm. 1876 J. Grant Hist. Burgh Schools Scotl. ii. v. 182 Cessation from work in all the schools. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > peace > [noun] > cessation of hostilities > suspension of hostilities truce?c1225 abstinence1386 induces1490 abstinence, prorogation of war1517 surseance1523 stay1563 surceasance1587 treague1590 suspension of arms or hostilities1603 cessation1628 still-stand1637 armistice1677 ceasefire1918 1628 R. Le Grys tr. J. Barclay Argenis ii. 128 These are, as it were, cessations from Armes, with which sometimes wee doe beguile our common griefes. 1643 R. Baker Chron. Kings of Eng. ii. 77 Jacke Cade..affirming no cessation from Arms, unlesse the king in Person would heare the grievances of the Subject. 1645 King Charles I Direct. Vxbridge Commissioners in Kings Cabinet Opened 27 The eminent inevitable necessity which caused me to make the Irish Cessation. 1653 H. Holcroft tr. Procopius Gothick Warre ii. 46 in tr. Procopius Hist. Warres Justinian They gave Hostages for observing the Cessation. 1736 T. Carte Hist. Life Duke Ormonde II. 285 To join with general Preston for suppressing and reducing the cessation-breakers. a1754 T. Carte Gen. Hist. Eng. (1755) IV. 479 After the cessation for that county [Cheshire] and Lancashire had been annulled. ΘΚΠ society > authority > office > withdrawing from or vacating office > [noun] resignationa1387 surceasingc1435 resign1457 cessationa1464 dimissiona1513 demission1577 cession1608 avoidance1642 retirement1648 cess1689 cesser1689 resigning1743 retiring1808 retiral1840 inkyo1871 society > occupation and work > lack of work > [noun] > action or fact of vacating office cessationa1464 vacance1579 cession1608 cess1689 cesser1689 vacating1855 vacation1860 a1464 J. Capgrave Abbreuiacion of Cron. (Cambr. Gg.4.12) (1983) 213 On Mihelmesse Day, þe kyng..red þe act of his cessacion before þese lordis. 1640 Bp. J. Hall Episcopacie ii. §12 If any Bishop..shall there keep him against this decreed Cessation, Let him..be barred from Communion. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > inaction > [noun] sleepc897 restc1175 passibilityc1485 slumber1554 cessation1603 quiescence1625 torpor1626 quiescency1629 inaction1638 inactivity1640 vacation1644 unactiveness1647 non-acting1648 passiveness1648 requiescence1654 unactivity1654 inertness1661 passivity1667 inactiveness1678 unaction1698 stagnation1711 supinity1725 immechanism1740 inertion1756 repose1757 lifelessness1833 stagnancy1837 unawakenedness1879 stasis1920 1603 J. Florio tr. M. de Montaigne Ess. iii. x. 610 They accuse my cessation, when as all the world was convicted of too much dooing. 1609 R. Cawdrey Table Alphabet. (ed. 2) Cessation, rest, idlenes. 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics i, in tr. Virgil Wks. 52 The spent Earth may gather heart again; And, better'd by Cessation, bear the Grain. View more context for this quotation This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online June 2020). < n.a1400 |
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