Dis`con*tin"ue (?), v. t. [imp.
& p. p. Discontinued (?); p. pr. & vb.
n. Discontinuing.] [Cf. F. discontinuer.]
To interrupt the continuance of; to intermit, as a practice or
habit; to put an end to; to cause to cease; to cease using, to stop;
to leave off.
Set up their conventicles again, which had been
discontinued.
Bp. Burnet.
I have discontinued school
Above a twelvemonth.
Shak.
Taught the Greek tongue, discontinued before in
these parts the space of seven hundred years.
Daniel.
They modify and discriminate the voice, without
appearing to discontinue it.
Holder.Dis`con*tin"ue, v. i.
1. To lose continuity or cohesion of parts; to
be disrupted or broken off. Bacon.
2. To be separated or severed; to
part.
Thyself shalt discontinue from thine
heritage.
Jer. xvii. 4.