Discontinue

Definition of Discontinue

Dis`con`tin´ue
v. t.1.To interrupt the continuance of; to intermit, as a practice or habit; to put an end to; to cause to cease; to cease using, to stop; to leave off.
[imp. & p. p. Discontinued ; p. pr. & vb. n. Discontinuing.]
Set up their conventicles again, which had been discontinued.
- Bp. Burnet.
I have discontinued school
Above a twelvemonth.
- Shak.
Taught the Greek tongue, discontinued before in these parts the space of seven hundred years.
- Daniel.
They modify and discriminate the voice, without appearing to discontinue it.
- Holder.
v. i.1.To lose continuity or cohesion of parts; to be disrupted or broken off.
2.To be separated or severed; to part.
Thyself shalt discontinue from thine heritage.
- Jer. xvii. 4.

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