Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Resting; discontinuing motion or action; inactive; dormant.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective obsolete Inactive; dormant.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective obsolete inactive; dormant

Etymologies

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Latin cessans, present participle of cessare. See cease.

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