Dis'con-tin'ue1, v. t.
v. t. [imp. & p. p. DISCONTINUED; p. pr. & vb. n. DISCONTINUING.] [Prefix dis and continue, q. v.; Fr. discontinuer.]
Sense 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.
Sense 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.
Sense 3. To break the continuity of; to sever into portions; to disunite.
They modify and discriminate the voice, without appearing to discontinue it. Holder.