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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Cease \Cease\ (s[=e]s), v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Ceased}; p. pr &
vb n. {Ceasing}.] [OE. cessen, cesen, F. cesser, fr L.
cessare v. intemsive fr cedere to withdraw. See {Cede}, and
cf {Cessation}.]
1. To come to an end to stop; to leave off or give over to
desist; as the noise ceased. ``To cease from strife.''
--Prov. xx 3.
2. To be wanting; to fail to pass away
The poor shall never cease out of the land. --Deut.
xv 11.
Syn: To intermit; desist; stop; abstain; quit discontinue;
refrain; leave off pause; end
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