Cessant

//ˈsɛsənt// adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Dormant, inactive. obsolete

    "[…] 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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abeyantat restdormantdullfallowidle

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"[…] 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: […]"

Etymology

From Latin cessans, present participle of cessare. See cease.

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