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Webster 1913 Edition
Pause
1.
A temporary stop or rest; an intermission of action; interruption; suspension; cessation.
2.
Temporary inaction or waiting; hesitation; suspence; doubt.
I stand in
pause
where I shall first begin. Shakespeare
3.
In speaking or reading aloud, a brief arrest or suspension of voice, to indicate the limits and relations of sentences and their parts.
4.
In writing and printing, a mark indicating the place and nature of an arrest of voice in reading; a punctuation point;
as, teach the pupil to mind the
. pauses
5.
A break or paragraph in writing.
He writes with warmth, which usually neglects method, and those partitions and
pauses
which men educated in schools observe. Locke.
Pause
,Verb.
I.
[
imp. & p. p.
Paused
(pa̤zd)
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Pausing
.] 1.
To make a short stop; to cease for a time; to intermit speaking or acting; to stop; to wait; to rest.
“Tarry, pause a day or two.” Shak.
Pausing
a while, thus to herself she mused. Milton.
2.
To be intermitted; to cease;
as, the music
. pauses
3.
To hesitate; to hold back; to delay.
[R.]
Why doth the Jew
pause
? Take thy forfeiture. Shakespeare
4.
To stop in order to consider; hence, to consider; to reflect.
[R.]
“Take time to pause.” Shak.
To pause upon
, to deliberate concerning.
Shak.
Syn. – To intermit; stop; stay; wait; delay; tarry; hesitate; demur.
Pause
,Verb.
T.
To cause to stop or rest; – used reflexively.
[R.]
Shak.
Webster 1828 Edition
Pause
PAUSE
,Noun.
1.
A stop; a cessation or intermission of action, of speaking, singing, playing or the like; a temporary stop or rest.2.
Cessation proceeding from doubt; suspense. I stand in pause where I shall first begin.
3.
Break or paragraph in writing.4.
A temporary cessation in reading. The use of punctuation is to mark the pauses in writing. In verse, there are two kinds of pauses, the cesural and the final. The cesural pause divides the verse; the final pause closes it. The pauses which mark the sense, and which may be called sentential, are the same in prose and verse.5.
A mark of cessation or intermission of the voice; a point.PAUSE
,Verb.
I.
Pausing a while, thus to herself she mused.
1.
To stop; to wait; to forbear for a time. Tarry, pause a day or two,
Before you hazard.
2.
To be intermitted. The music pauses.To pause upon, to deliberate.