v. i.
The poor shall never cease out of the land. Deut. xv. 11.
v. t. To put a stop to; to bring to an end. [ 1913 Webster ]
But he, her fears to cease
Sent down the meek-eyed peace. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]
Cease, then, this impious rage. Milton [ 1913 Webster ]
n. Extinction. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Without pause or end; incessant. [ 1913 Webster ]
adv. Without intermission or end. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ OE. deses, deces, F. décès, fr. L. decessus departure, death, fr. decedere to depart, die; de- + cedere to withdraw. See Cease, Cede. ] Departure, especially departure from this life; death. [ 1913 Webster ]
His decease, which he should accomplish at Jerusalem. Luke ix. 31. [ 1913 Webster ]
And I, the whilst you mourn for his decease,
Will with my mourning plaints your plaint increase. Spenser.
v. i.
She's dead, deceased, she's dead. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
When our summers have deceased. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]
Inasmuch as he carries the malignity and the lie with him, he so far deceases from nature. Emerson. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Passed away; dead; gone. [ 1913 Webster ]
The deceased,
v. t. To die sooner than. “If children predecease progenitors.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. The death of one person or thing before another. [ R. ] Brougham. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ F. sursis, from sursis, p. p. of surseoir to suspend, postpone, defer, in OF., to delay, refrain from, forbear, L. supersedere. Surcease is not connected with E. cease. See Supersede. ] Cessation; stop; end. “Not desire, but its surcease.” Longfellow. [ 1913 Webster ]
It is time that there were an end and surcease made of this immodest and deformed manner of writing. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. t. To cause to cease; to end. [ Obs. ] “The waves . . . their range surceast.” Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]
The nations, overawed, surceased the fight. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. i. To cease. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
n. Cessation. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]