Cessation: alternatives and connections

The act of awaking, or ceasing to sleep. Specifically: A revival of religion, or more general attention to religious matters than usua…

To stop abruptly and stand still obstinately; to jib; to stop short; to swerve; as, the horse balks.

A stop or pause by a party to an action, for the judgment of the court on the question, whether, assuming the truth of the matter alle…

The cessation of use; disuse; discontinuance of practice, custom, or fashion.

gradually ceasing to be visible

The act of discontinuing, or the state of being discontinued; want of continued connection or continuity; breaking off; cessation; int…

Breach or interruption of continuity; separation of parts in a connected series; discontinuance.

One whose possession of an estate is broken off, or discontinued; one whose estate is subject to discontinuance.

One who deprives another of the possession of an estate by discontinuance. See Discontinuance, 2.

Any construction, whether a temporary breastwork or permanent fortification, for attack or defense, the material of which is chiefly e…

State of being extinguished or of ceasing to be; destruction; suppression; as, the extinction of life, of a family, of a quarrel, of c…

gradually ceasing to be visible

Conclusive; decisive; as, a final judgment; the battle of Waterloo brought the contest to a final issue.

The state of being final, finished, or complete; a final or conclusive arrangement; a settlement.

The act or process of ceasing to be fluid and becoming firm.

To obstruct or stop up, as a way; to stop the passage of on highway; to intercept on the road, as goods on the way to market.

Loss of remembrance or recollection; a ceasing to remember; oblivion.

A writ of right for a tenant in tail in case of a discontinuance of the estate tail. This writ has been abolished.