cessant
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cessant
- /ˈsɛsənt/
Rhymes with -ɛsənt
Where it comes from
From Latin cessans, present participle of cessare. See cease.
adjective more cessant · most cessant
- Dormant, inactive. […] God hath been pleaſed, by a civil death, to contrive a juſtifiable intermiſsion of my ſecular Duties, and by ſuch a vvay, as renders even this ceſſant ſtate in ſome ſort active, and diſcharging my Obligations: […]
