All 3 Uses of
cease
in
Antigone
- CREON O cease, you vex me with your babblement; I am like to think you dote in your old age.†
cease = stop or discontinue
- At last it ceased, and lo!†
*ceased = stopped or discontinued
- Cease, by our country's altars I entreat, Ye lordly rulers of a lordly race.†
cease = stop or discontinue
Definitions:
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(1)
(cease) to stop or discontinue
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
Note that the expression, cease fire means to stop doing battle such as firing funs at each other. Similarly, the noun, cease-fire, is a state of having stopped doing battle.