Discontinue

v. t. [imp. & p. p. DISCONTINUED; p. pr. & vb. n. DISCONTINUING.] [Prefix dis and continue, q. v.; Fr. discontinuer.]

1Sense 1. To interrupt the continuance of; to intermit, as a practice or habit; to put an end to; to stop; to leave off.

Set up their conventicles again which had been discontinued. Burnet.

2Sense 2. To cease attention to, or entertainment or reception of; as, to discontinue a newspaper.

Taught the Greek tongue, discontinued before in these parts the space of seven hundred years. Daniel.

3Sense 3. To break the continuity of; to sever into portions; to disunite.

They modify and discriminate the voice, without appearing to discontinue it. Holder.

v. i. 1. To lose continuity or cohesion of parts; to be disrupted or broken off. 2. To be separated or severed; to part. Thyself shalt discontinue from thine heritage. Jer. xvii. 4.