English

Adjective

intermissive ‎(comparative more intermissive, superlative most intermissive)

1. Having temporary cessations; not continual; intermittent.
   • William Shakespeare

     Wounds I will lend the French, instead of eyes,
     To weep their intermissive miseries.

   • Howell

     I reduced Ireland, after so many intermissive wars, to a perfect passive obedience.

   • Thomas Browne

     And therefore as though there were any feriation in nature or justitiums imaginable in professions, whose subject is natural, and under no intermissive, but constant way of mutation, this season is commonly termed the physician's vacation, and stands so received by most men.