All 50 Uses of
cease
in
The Ramayana
- The hermit ceased.†
Book 1ceased = stopped or discontinued
- He fed him with the daintiest fare, He served him with unceasing care, And ministered with anxious eyes Lest anger in his breast should rise; And gave to be the Bráhman's bride His own fair daughter, lotus-eyed.†
Book 1unceasing = not stopping or discontinuingstandard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unceasing means not and reverses the meaning of ceasing. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
- Once favoured by the Eternal Sire He plagues the worlds in ceaseless ire, For peerless power and might renowned, By giant bands encompassed round.†
Book 1ceaseless = never-endingstandard suffix: The suffix "-less" in ceaseless means without and reverses the meaning of cease. This is the same pattern you see in words like harmless, fearless, and powerless.
- And now my truthful tale is told How with accursed sway The spirit plagued this wood of old, And ceases not to-day.†
Book 1 *ceases = stops or discontinues
- The hermit ceased: the tale was done: Then in a transport Raghu's son Again addressed the ancient sire Resplendent as a burning fire: "O holy man, I fain would hear The tale repeated full and clear How he from whom my sires descend Brought the great rite to happy end."†
Book 1ceased = stopped or discontinued
- Go, and with ceaseless labour try To draw the Goddess from the sky.†
Book 1ceaseless = never-endingstandard suffix: The suffix "-less" in ceaseless means without and reverses the meaning of cease. This is the same pattern you see in words like harmless, fearless, and powerless.
- So falling first on Siva's head, Thence rushing to their earthly bed, In ceaseless fall the waters streamed, And pure with holy lustre gleamed.†
Book 1
- But as the ceaseless tempest flew, The sage with wand of God-sent power Still swallowed up that fiery shower.†
Book 1
- Thus, girt with hermit, saint, and priest, Great Visvámitra spoke—and ceased.†
Book 1ceased = stopped or discontinued
- Lord Indra ceased.†
Book 1
- A Bráhman's rank thy penance stern And ceaseless labour richly earn.†
Book 1ceaseless = never-endingstandard suffix: The suffix "-less" in ceaseless means without and reverses the meaning of cease. This is the same pattern you see in words like harmless, fearless, and powerless.
- He ceased.†
Book 1ceased = stopped or discontinued
- Thus in the presence of the priest The royal Janak spoke, and ceased.†
Book 1
- Soon as the councillor had ceased, The king, with saint and peer and priest, Sought, speeding through the palace gate, The hall where Janak held his state.†
Book 1
- Then all the dwellers in the sky, Minstrel, and saint, and God drew nigh, And prayed them that the strife might cease, And the great rivals met in peace.†
Book 1cease = stop or discontinue
- He ceased.†
Book 1ceased = stopped or discontinued
- To such high bliss and happy fate Will I the country dedicate, And my sad heart will cease to grieve If he the precious charge receive.†
Book 2cease = stop or discontinue
- The monarch ceased.†
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- Then burst the people's rapture out In loud acclaim and joyful shout; And when the tumult slowly ceased The king addressed the holy priest: "Give order, Saint, with watchful heed For what the coming rite will need.†
Book 2
- She ceased.†
Book 2
- The lady ceased.†
Book 2
- She ceased.†
Book 2
- Through all the months in ceaseless store The trees both fruit and blossom bore.†
Book 2ceaseless = never-endingstandard suffix: The suffix "-less" in ceaseless means without and reverses the meaning of cease. This is the same pattern you see in words like harmless, fearless, and powerless.
- Ere she had ceased, the monarch fell, A victim to the lady's spell, And to the deadly snare she set Sprang, like a roebuck to the net.†
Book 2ceased = stopped or discontinued
- The lord of men his promise gave To grant the boon that I might crave, And now a bridge would idly throw When the dried stream has ceased to flow.†
Book 2
- Then will the lady's trouble cease, Then will her heart have joy and peace, When wandering in the wood I wear Deerskin, and bark, and matted hair.†
Book 2cease = stop or discontinue
- Weigh this true counsel in thy soul: With thy firm heart thy heart control; Then, brother, thou wilt cease to grieve For hindered rites which now I leave.†
Book 2
- Then when the rites of fire had ceased, For Ráma's bliss and health, the priest, Standing without gave what remained In general offering,(299) as ordained.†
Book 2ceased = stopped or discontinued
- The long-eyed lady ceased: she shed Pure scent and grain upon his head.†
Book 2
- Then cease, O lady, and dismiss Thy hope to ruin Ráma's bliss, Or all thy gain, O fair of face, Will be men's hatred, and disgrace.†
Book 2cease = stop or discontinue
- Its own sweet light the moon shall leave Ere I to duty cease to cleave.†
Book 2
- Kausalyá ceased her sad lament, Of beauteous dames most excellent.†
Book 2ceased = stopped or discontinued
- Thus soothing, kindly eloquent, With every hopeful argument Kausalyá's heart by sorrow rent, Fair Queen Sumitrá ceased.†
Book 2
- And all Ayodhyá, where the feast, Music, and song, and dance had ceased, And merriment and glee, Where every merchant's store was closed That erst its glittering wares exposed, Was like a dried up sea.†
Book 2
- When he upon the throne is placed, When thy fond arms are round him laced, Thine aged heart will cease to ache With bitter pangs for Ráma's sake.†
Book 2cease = stop or discontinue
- The hero ceased: and Lakshma?†
Book 2ceased = stopped or discontinued
- To him, when ceased his loud lament, Like fire whose brilliant might is spent, Or the great sea when sleeps the wave, Thus Lakshma?†
Book 2
- Soon as he saw the meat was done, And that the juices ceased to run From the broiled carcass, Lakshma?†
Book 2
- (335) The fervent heat that moment ceased, The darkening clouds each hour increased And frogs and deer and peacocks all Rejoiced to see the torrents fall†
Book 2
- The wretched votaress how sustain, Who mourns her child in ceaseless pain?†
Book 2ceaseless = never-endingstandard suffix: The suffix "-less" in ceaseless means without and reverses the meaning of cease. This is the same pattern you see in words like harmless, fearless, and powerless.
- They trembled, and their dread increased, Fearing his breath of life had ceased, And bending low their heads, they shook Like the tall reeds that fringe the brook.†
Book 2ceased = stopped or discontinued
- The joys of happier days have ceased: No gathering, festival, or feast Together calls the merry throng Delighted with the play and song.†
Book 2
- The merry cry of bird and beast, That spake aloud their joy, has ceased: Still is the long melodious note That charmed us from each warbling throat.†
Book 2
- They bridged ravines with ceaseless toil, And pounded fine the flinty soil.†
Book 2ceaseless = never-endingstandard suffix: The suffix "-less" in ceaseless means without and reverses the meaning of cease. This is the same pattern you see in words like harmless, fearless, and powerless.
- E'en now perhaps, with toil o'erspent, The women cease their loud lament, And cries of woe no longer ring Throughout the palace of the king.†
Book 2cease = stop or discontinue
- Soon as the minstrels ceased to play And airs celestial died away, The troops of Bharat saw amazed What Visvakarmá's art had raised.†
Book 2ceased = stopped or discontinued
- By ceaseless care and earnest zeal For servants and for people's weal, By gifts, by duty nobly done, Our glorious sire the skies has won.†
Book 2ceaseless = never-endingstandard suffix: The suffix "-less" in ceaseless means without and reverses the meaning of cease. This is the same pattern you see in words like harmless, fearless, and powerless.
- For those—and only those—I weep Who to the path of duty keep; For here they suffer ceaseless woe, And dying to destruction go.†
Book 2
- He ceased: before him Bharat fell To clasp his feet, and said farewell: His reverent steps around him bent, And onward to Ayodhyá went.†
Book 2ceased = stopped or discontinued
- All grieve for banished Ráma: feast, And revelry and song have ceased: Like a black night when floods pour down, So dark and gloomy is the town.†
Book 2
Definition:
to stop or discontinue