KJV Dictionary - cease
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CEASE
CEASE, v.i.
1. To stop moving, acting or speaking; to leave of; to give over; followed by from before a noun.
It is an honor for a man to cease from strife. Prov. 20.
2. To fail; to be wanting.
The poor shall never cease out of the land. Deut. 15.
3. To stop; to be at an end; as, the wonder ceases; the storm has ceased.
4. To be forgotten.
I would make the remembrance of them to cease. Deut. 32.
5. To abstain; as, cease from anger. Ps. 37.
To cease from labor, is to rest; to cease from strife, is to be quiet; but in such phrases, the sense of cease is not varied.
CEASE, v.t. To put a stop to; to put an end to. Cease this impious rage. But in this use the phrase is generally elliptical,
CEASE, n. Extinction.
Definition from Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language, 1828.
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