Dis`con*tin"ue (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Discontinued (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Discontinuing.] [Cf. F. discontinuer.]
To interrupt the continuance of; to intermit, as a practice or habit; to put an end to; to cause to cease; to cease using, to stop; to leave off.
Set up their conventicles again, which had been discontinued.
Bp. Burnet.
I have discontinued school
Above a twelvemonth.
Shak.
Taught the Greek tongue, discontinued before in these parts the space of seven hundred years.
Daniel.
They modify and discriminate the voice, without appearing to discontinue it.
Holder.
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Dis`con*tin"ue, v. i.
1.
To lose continuity or cohesion of parts; to be disrupted or broken off.
Bacon.
2.
To be separated or severed; to part.
Thyself shalt discontinue from thine heritage.
Jer. xvii. 4.
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