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Webster 1913 Edition


Discontinue

Disˊcon-tin′ue

,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Discontinued
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Discontinuing
.]
[Cf. F.
discontinuer
.]
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.
Set up their conventicles again, which had been
discontinued
.
Bp. Burnet.
I have
discontinued
school
Above a twelvemonth.
Shakespeare
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.

Disˊcon-tin′ue

,
Verb.
I.
1.
To lose continuity or cohesion of parts; to be disrupted or broken off.
Bacon.
2.
To be separated or severed; to part.
Thyself shalt
discontinue
from thine heritage.
Jer. xvii. 4.

Webster 1828 Edition


Discontinue

DISCONTINUE

,
Verb.
T.
[dis and continue.]
1.
To leave off; to cause to cease, as a practice or habit; to stop; to put an end to; as, to discontinue the intemperate use of spirits. Inveterate customs are not discontinued without inconvenience.
The depredations on our commerce were not to be discontinued.
2.
To break off; to interrupt.
3.
To cease to take or receive; as, to discontinue a daily prayer.

DISCONTINUE

,
Verb.
I.
1.
To cease; to leave the possession, or lose an established or long enjoyed right.
Thyself shalt discontinue from thine heritage. Jeremiah 17.
2.
To lose the cohesion of parts; to suffer disruption or separation of substance. [Little used.]

Definition 2024


discontinué

discontinué

See also: discontinue and discontinúe

Spanish

Verb

discontinué

  1. First-person singular (yo) preterite indicative form of discontinuar.