Both Uses
cease
in
Abraham Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address
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- ...before the conflict itself should cease.
*cease = stop
- Neither anticipated that the cause of the conflict might cease with or even before the conflict itself should cease.†
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) 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.