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单词 cessation
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cessationn.

/sɛˈseɪʃən/
Etymology: < Latin cessātiōn-em, noun of action < cessāre to cease v. Practically treated as noun of action < English cease ; see -ation suffix.
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.
b. elliptically = Cessation of or from arms (see in preceding): suspension of hostilities; armistice, truce: also in combinations as cessation-breaker. Obsolete.
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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.
2. A ceasing to hold office. Obsolete.
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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.
3. Desistence from action; inactivity, idleness.
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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
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