Discontinuing

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Discontinue \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.


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           Set up their conventicles again, which had been
           discontinued.                            --Bp. Burnet.
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           I have discontinued school
           Above a twelvemonth.                     --Shak.
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           Taught the Greek tongue, discontinued before in these
           parts the space of seven hundred years.  --Daniel.
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           They modify and discriminate the voice, without
           appearing to discontinue it.             --Holder.
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