cessant
adj/ˈsɛsənt/
Etymology From Latin cessans, present participle of cessare. See cease.
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Obsolete Dormant, inactive.
- […] 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: […]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:
- Related terms
- incessant