cessant
English edit
Etymology edit
Latin cessans, present participle of cessare. See cease.
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Adjective edit
cessant (comparative more cessant, superlative most cessant)
- (obsolete) inactive; dormant
- 1648, Walter Montagu, Miscellanea Spiritualia, or Devout Essaies:
- God hath been pleaſed, by a civil death, to contrive a justifiable intermission of my secular Duties ; and by such a way, as renders even this cessant state in some sort active […]
Synonyms edit
- abeyant, latent, torpid; see also Thesaurus:inactive
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References edit
- “cessant”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
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cessant (feminine cessante, masculine plural cessants, feminine plural cessantes)
- In the process of stopping.
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Participle edit
cessant
Further reading edit
- “cessant”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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