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Surcease
Open directlyWebster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 1 of 3
Part of speech: noun (n.)
Cessation; stop; end. "Not desire, but its surcease." Longfellow. It is time that there were an end and surcease made of this immodest and deformed manner of writing. Bacon.
Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 2 of 3
Part of speech: verb (v.)
To cause to cease; to end. [Obs.] "The waves . . . their range surceast." Spenser. The nations, overawed, surceased the fight. Dryden.
Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 3 of 3
Part of speech: verb (v.)
To cease. [Obs.]