Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To desist.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb obsolete To stand apart from; top leave off; to desist.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb obsolete To stand apart from; top leave off; to
desist .
Etymologies
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Latin absistere, present active infinitive of absistō ("desist"); from ab ("from, away from") + sistō ("stand").
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