Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Resting; discontinuing motion or action; inactive; dormant.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Inactive; dormant.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective obsolete
inactive ;dormant
Etymologies
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Examples
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[108] Attack on cessant fire kept up, by them assured us of their having started the others.
Sporting Sketches 2002
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Expugnant fortissime machinis et sagittis: et nec die nec nocte cessant � pr鎙io, vt illi qui sunt in munitionibus non quiescant.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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“Cœlum et terra, et omnia quæ in eis sunt, ecce undique mihi dicunt ut te amem, nec cessant dicere omnibus, ut sint inexcusabiles.” —
Of Communion with God the Father, Son and Holy Ghost 1616-1683 1965
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* [3110] Cœlum et terra, et omnia quæ in eis sunt, ecce undique mihi dicunt ut te amem, nec cessant dicere omnibus, ut sint inexcusabiles.
Of Communion with God the Father, Son and Holy Ghost 1616-1683 1965
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* [6734] Cœlum et terra, et omnia quæ in eis sunt, ecce undique mihi dicunt ut te amem, nec cessant dicere omnibus, ut sint inexcusabiles.
Of Communion with God the Father, Son and Holy Ghost 1616-1683 1965
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After a week's in - cessant preparation we left Camp Jackson for Camp Hancock on May 20, 1918.
William Bradley and Merle Davis Umstead papers (#4529). My Diary. A Soldier�s Record 1917
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"Diane cessant de m'être favorable, Ismène [214] _me pouvait tenir lieu de Déesse_."
A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 George Saintsbury 1889
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If we were to quote from Juvenal -- "Delphis et Oracula cessant," in that case, the fathers challenge it as an argument on _their_ side, for that Juvenal described a state of things immediately posterior to Christianity; yet even here the word
Memorials and Other Papers — Volume 1 Thomas De Quincey 1822
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By _cessant_ Juvenal means evidently what we, in these days, should mean in saying of a ship in action that her fire was slackening.
Memorials and Other Papers — Volume 1 Thomas De Quincey 1822
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By _cessant_ Juvenal means evidently what we, in these days, should mean in saying of a ship in action that her fire was slackening.
Memorials and Other Papers — Complete Thomas De Quincey 1822
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