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Discontinue \Dis`con*tin"ue\, v. t. [imp. & p. p.
{Discontinued}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Discontinuing}.] [Cf. F.
discontinuer.]
To interrupt the continuance of; to intermit, as a practice
or habit; to put an end to; to cause to cease; to cease
using, to stop; to leave off.
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Set up their conventicles again, which had been
discontinued. --Bp. Burnet.
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I have discontinued school
Above a twelvemonth. --Shak.
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Taught the Greek tongue, discontinued before in these
parts the space of seven hundred years. --Daniel.
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They modify and discriminate the voice, without
appearing to discontinue it. --Holder.
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Discontinue \Dis`con*tin"ue\, v. i.
1. To lose continuity or cohesion of parts; to be disrupted
or broken off. --Bacon.
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2. To be separated or severed; to part.
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Thyself shalt discontinue from thine heritage.
--Jer. xvii.
4.
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