cessant
English
editEtymology
editLatin cessans, present participle of cessare. See cease.
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editAdjective
editcessant (comparative more cessant, superlative most cessant)
- (obsolete) Dormant, inactive.
- Synonyms: abeyant, latent, torpid; see also Thesaurus:inactive
- 1648, Walter Montagu, “To the Most Sacred Majesty of Henrietta Maria, Daughter of France, and Queen of Great Britain”, in Miscellanea Spiritualia: Or, Devout Essaies, London: […] W[illiam] Lee, D[aniel] Pakeman, and G[abriel] Bedell, […], →OCLC:
- […] God hath been pleaſed, by a civil death, to contrive a juſtifiable intermiſsion of my ſecular Duties, and by ſuch a vvay, as renders even this ceſſant ſtate in ſome ſort active, and diſcharging my Obligations: […]
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editReferences
edit- “cessant”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
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French
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Adjective
editcessant (feminine cessante, masculine plural cessants, feminine plural cessantes)
- In the process of stopping.
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Further reading
edit- “cessant”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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