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Cessant

//ˈsɛsənt// adj

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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: […]"

Etymology

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

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