INTERMIT', verb transitive [Latin intermitto; inter and mitto, to send.] To cause to cease for a time; to interrupt; to suspend. Pray to the gods, to intermit the plague That needs must light on this ingratitude. INTERMIT', verb intransitive To cease for a time; to go off at intervals; as a fever. A tertian fever intermits every other day. The pulse sometimes intermits for a second of time.
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