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Webster 1913 Edition
Intermit
Inˊter-mit′
,Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Intermitted
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Intermitting
.] [L.
intermittere
; inter
between + mittere
, missum
, to send: cf. OE. entremeten
to busy (one’s self) with, F. s'entremettre
. See Missile
.] To cause to cease for a time, or at intervals; to interrupt; to suspend.
Pray to the gods to
intermit
the plague. Shakespeare
Inˊter-mit′
,Verb.
I.
To cease for a time or at intervals; to moderate; to be intermittent, as a fever.
Pope.
Webster 1828 Edition
Intermit
INTERMIT'
,Verb.
T.
To cause to cease for a time; to interrupt; to suspend.
Pray to the gods, to intermit the plague
That needs must light on this ingratitude.
INTERMIT'
,Verb.
I.
Definition 2024
intermit
intermit
English
Verb
intermit (third-person singular simple present intermits, present participle intermitting, simple past and past participle intermitted)
- (transitive, now rare) To interrupt, to stop or cease temporarily or periodically; to suspend.
- 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, vol. I, New York 2001, p.243:
- Idleness […] of body is nothing but a kind of of benumbing laziness, intermitting exercise, which, if we may believe Fernelius, “[…] makes them unapt to do anything whatever.”
- Shakespeare
- Pray to the gods to intermit the plague.
- 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, vol. I, New York 2001, p.243: