CEASE, verb intransitive 1. To stop moving, acting or speaking; to leave of; to give over; followed by from before a noun. It is an honor for a man to cease from strife. Proverbs 20:3. 2. To fail; to be wanting. The poor shall never cease out of the land. Deuteronomy 15:11. 3. To stop; to be at an end; as, the wonder ceases; the storm has ceased. 4. To be forgotten. I would make the remembrance of them to cease Deuteronomy 32:26. 5. To abstain; as, cease from anger. Psalms 37:8. To cease from labor, is to rest; to cease from strife, is to be quiet; but in such phrases, the sense of cease is not varied. CEASE, verb transitive To put a stop to; to put an end to. cease this impious rage. [But in this use the phrase is generally elliptical, ] CEASE, noun Extinction.
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