intermit
Definition from Wiktionary, the free dictionary
Contents |
[edit] English
[edit] Etymology
From Latin intermittere, from inter- + mittere.
[edit] Pronunciation
[edit] Verb
intermit (third-person singular simple present intermits, present participle intermitting, simple past and past participle intermitted)
- (transitive, now rare) To interrupt, to stop or cease temporarily or periodically; to suspend.
- 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, vol. I, New York 2001, p. 243:
- Idleness [...] of body is nothing but a kind of of benumbing laziness, intermitting exercise, which, if we may believe Fernelius, “[...] makes them unapt to do anything whatever.”
- 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, vol. I, New York 2001, p. 243:
