desist
IPA: dɪsˈɪst
verb
- (transitive, intransitive, formal) To cease to proceed or act; to stop (often with from).
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Examples of "desist" in Sentences
- God, and therefore they might as well desist from the building of the temple.
- We have received a letter to desist from the creation of the Stargate: Source mod.
- They were persuaded, however, to desist from the former design, and to agree in the latter.
- He appeals to them to desist from a war which can only, after greater sacrifices, terminate in a treaty of peace.
- The committee has been "ordered to cease and desist from the use of campaign literature" from Fenty's primary campaign.
- They did not desist from the work until the Wazir ordered a number of his people to remove to this city with their families.
- We can ourselves bear witness to the "hardness of the pavement" below, which Captain Wentworth feared would cause "too great a jar" when he urged the young lady to desist from the fatal leap.
- "Touch him if thou dare; remember the battle, how unable thou art to encounter such a force, and what is therefore likely to be the issue of the battle, and do no more, but desist from the attempt."
- Mrs. Mirvan then advanced to him, and said in French, that she was sure the Captain had not any intention to affront him, and begged he would desist from a dispute which could only be productive of mutual misunderstanding, as neither of them knew the language of the other.
- If you wish to preserve his life, desist from the assault, and depart in peace; and bear this message to the Countess your mistress: – the Baron Malcolm will accept no other ransom for the life and the liberty of the Earl, than her beauteous daughter, whom he now sues to become his wife.
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