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Cease

verb

(past & past part. ceased; pres. part. ceasing)

Put an end to a state or an activity. Synonyms: discontinue, give up, lay off, quit, stop.

Have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical. Synonyms: end, finish, stop, terminate. "Your rights stop where you infringe upon the rights of other" , "My property ends by the bushes" , "The symphony ends in a pianissimo"

noun

('cease' is a noun only in the phrase 'without cease') end.

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"Cease" Quotes from Famous Books

... studies. Hence arises the fact which strikes the eye everywhere in the records of ethnology and folk-lore—the fact that the same frigid and detached spirit which leads to success in the study of astronomy or botany leads to disaster in the study of mythology or human origins. It is necessary to cease to be a man in order to do justice to a microbe; it is not necessary to cease to be a man in order to do justice to men. That same suppression of sympathies, that same waving away of intuitions or guess-work which make a ...

— Heretics • Gilbert K. Chesterton

... "Cease firing!" the deputy laughed. "I'll answer Bud's question first. Yes, it has been going on here—right past Roaring River. That's how our marshal got shot up—tryin' to stop a load ...

— The Boy Ranchers on Roaring River - or Diamond X and the Chinese Smugglers • Willard F. Baker

... for peace! Praised be Thou Who makest war to cease, O'er all our Empire wide THY reign increase! Let all men seek for good, In one blest brotherhood— God! thanks ...

— The King's Post • R. C. Tombs

... and of Socrates whom other lice (his enemies) destroyed, he says: "What means all this? Thou hast embarked, thou hast made the voyage, thou art come to shore; get out. If indeed to another life, there is no want of gods, not even there. But if to a state without sensation, thou wilt cease to be held by pains and pleasures, and to be a slave to the vessel which is as much inferior as that which serves it is superior: for the one is intelligence and Deity; the other is earth and corruption" (III. ...

— The Thoughts Of The Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus • Marcus Aurelius

... work of composition, and the poetic quality was strong and it was often exhibited in his speeches and writings. The omission of the sentence in question would so mar the Proclamation that it would cease to represent Mr. Lincoln. Thus he became under ...

— Reminiscences of Sixty Years in Public Affairs, Vol. 2 • George S. Boutwell

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