cessant

English

Etymology

From Latin cessans, present participle of cessare. See cease.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɛsənt/

Adjective

cessant (comparative more cessant, superlative most cessant)

1. (obsolete) Dormant, inactive.

   Synonyms: abeyant, latent, torpid; see also Thesaurus:inactive

   • 1648, Walter Montagu, “To the Most Sacred Majesty of Henrietta Maria, Daughter of France, and Queen of Great Britain”, in Miscellanea Spiritualia: Or, Devout Essaies, London: […] W[illiam] Lee, D[aniel] Pakeman, and G[abriel] Bedell, […], →OCLC:

     […] God hath been pleaſed, by a civil death, to contrive a juſtifiable intermiſsion of my ſecular Duties, and by ſuch a vvay, as renders even this ceſſant ſtate in ſome ſort active, and diſcharging my Obligations: […]

Related terms

• incessant

References

• “cessant”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• ascents, catness, secants, stances

Catalan

Verb

cessant

1. gerund of cessar

French

Pronunciation

• Audio (France (Lyon)):

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Adjective

cessant (feminine cessante, masculine plural cessants, feminine plural cessantes)

1. In the process of stopping.

Derived terms

• toute affaire cessante

Participle

cessant

1. present participle of cesser

Further reading

• “cessant”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• cassent, sécants

Latin

Verb

cessant

1. third-person plural present active indicative of cessō