CEASE Copy link • CEASEleave off doing anything: desinere aliquid, or with infinitive (leave off without the intention of resuming; it may also be said of things that cease): desistere aliqua re; ab or de aliqua re; or with infinitive (to desist, from an act of the will, and therefore spoken of persons only): absistere aliqua re, or with infinitive (not used by Cic.): mittere, with infinitive (to let it go; give it up): finem facere aliquid faciendi, or alicujus, or alicui rei (put an end to it): conquiescere ab re (to rest from it): omittere: intermittere aliquid, or with infinitive (the former of a total giving up, the latter of a temporary suspension): cessare, with infinitive (to stop repeatedly from indolence, etc.). To cease speaking, finem facere dicendi or loquendi: finem imponere orationi (of an oration): also perorare. To cease to be (= die), esse desino. Vid: Sometimes TO CEASE is translated by a verb compounded with de: to cease raining depluere: raging, desaevire. Have an end, finem habere or capere: quiescere: conquiescere (rest): abire: decedere (go away: these four of diseases; e.g., a fever): intermittere (to allow an interval of rest; to intermit): residere: considere: remittere (of winds and stormy passions subsiding): subsidere (of winds and waves). The wind has entirely ceased, venti vis omnis cecidit. To cease with anybody (of a family), deficere in aliquo (Gell.). To make anything cease, finem facere alicujus or alicui rei: finem imponere alicui rei. The discussion has ceased, disputari desitum est. Without ceasing [Vid: CEASELESSLY]. To sing without ceasing, ita cano, ut nihil intermittam: to labor without ceasing, nullum tempus ad laborem intermittere.