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to not do something

The Federal Trade Commission ordered the company to cease-and-desist from making such claims.

desist = to not do something

The new company was halted in their tracks when the city had a cease-and-desist order issued.

desist = to not do something

He would not despair: he would not desist.
Austen, Jane -- Mansfield Park
Desist, and drink.
Shakespeare, William -- Antony and Cleopatra
Scientists who've gone ahead with research involving the breast-cancer genes without Myriad's permission have found themselves on the receiving end of cease-and-desist letters and threats of litigation.
Rebecca Skloot -- The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

desist = stop doing something

Notwithstanding the evidently useless nature of their search, they did not desist until the coming on of night rendered its further prosecution hopeless; and even then, they gave it up with reluctance.
Charles Dickens -- Oliver Twist

desist = to not do something

Harry hooked down at his own wand. He could see finger marks all over it. He gathered a fistful of robe from his knee and tried to rub it clean surreptitiously. Several gold sparks shot out of the end of it. Fleur Delacour gave him a very patronizing look, and he desisted.
J.K. Rowling -- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

desisted = stopped

"Ahab," cried Starbuck, "not too late is it, even now, the third day, to desist."
Herman Melville -- Moby Dick

desist = to not do something

desisted = stopped

desist = stop doing something

My son, by all means desist from kicking the venerable and enlightened Vizier:
C.S. Lewis -- The Horse and His Boy

desist = cease (stop)

"Lise, I beg you to desist," said Prince Andrew still more emphatically.
Leo Tolstoy -- War and Peace

desist = to not do something

I entreat you, nay, I command you, (says he) to desist from these intentions.
Daniel Defoe -- Robinson Crusoe

desist = to not do something

Faint and sick with the pain of my injured arm, bewildered by the surprise, and yet conscious how easily this threat could be put in execution, I desisted, and tried to ease my arm were it ever so little.
Charles Dickens -- Great Expectations

desisted = stopped

She held her hand interposed between the furnace-heat and her eyes, and seemed absorbed in her occupation; desisting from it only to chide the servant for covering her with sparks, or to push away a dog, now and then, that snoozled its nose overforwardly into her face.
Emily Bronte -- Wuthering Heights

desisting = stopping

A most peculiar expression stole over Nearly Headless Nick's face as he inserted a finger in the stiff ruff at his neck and tugged it a little straighter, apparently to give himself thinking time. He desisted only when his partially severed neck seemed about to give way completely.
J.K. Rowling -- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

desisted = stopped

Two older children discovered Mudgett's fear and one day captured him and dragged him "struggling and shrieking" into the doctor's office. "Nor did they desist," Mudgett wrote, "until I had been brought face to face with one of its grinning skeletons, which, with arms outstretched, seemed ready in its turn to seize me."
Erik Larson -- The Devil in the White City

desist = to not do something

And you, estimable Vizier, whether he desists or not, by no means allow the flow of your eloquence to be interrupted.
C.S. Lewis -- The Horse and His Boy
"Desist, O my son," said the Tisroc.
C.S. Lewis -- The Horse and His Boy
Desist therefore, and tell us what you desire and propose.
C.S. Lewis -- The Horse and His Boy

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