Word Meanings - DISCONTINUANCE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. The act of discontinuing, or the state of being discontinued; want of continued connection or continuity; breaking off; cessation; interruption; as, a discontinuance of conversation or intercourse; discontinuance of a highway or of travel. A

Additional info about word: DISCONTINUANCE

1. The act of discontinuing, or the state of being discontinued; want of continued connection or continuity; breaking off; cessation; interruption; as, a discontinuance of conversation or intercourse; discontinuance of a highway or of travel. A breaking off or interruption of an estate, which happened when an alienation was made by a tenant in tail, or other tenant, seized in right of another, of a larger estate than the tenant was entitled to, whereby the party ousted or injured was driven to his real action, and could not enter. This effect of such alienation is now obviated by statute in both England and the United States. The termination of an action in practice by the voluntary act of the plaintiff; an entry on the record that the plaintiff discontinues his action. That technical interruption of the proceedings in pleading in an action, which follows where a defendant does not answer the whole of the plaintiff's declaration, and the plaintiff omits to take judgment for the part unanswered. Wharton's Law Dict. Burrill. Syn. -- Cessation; intermission; discontinuation; separation; disunion; disjunction; disruption; break.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of DISCONTINUANCE)

• Abrogation
• Abolition
• repeal
• discontinuance
• disestablishment
• Cessation
• Stopping
• halt
• quiescence
• suspension
• intermission
• lull
• respite
• stop
• rest
• abeyance
• pause
• Desinence
• Termination
• conclusion
• cessation
• cadence
• period
• finality
• Intermission
• interruption
• recurrence
• interval
• Solution
• Separation
• discerption
• disruption
• breach
• disconnection
• disentanglement
• elucidation
• explanation
• key
• answer
• resolution
• disintegration

Related words: (words related to DISCONTINUANCE)

• PERIODIC; PERIODICAL
  Of or pertaining to a period; constituting a complete sentence. Periodic comet , a comet that moves about the sun in an elliptic orbit; a comet that has been seen at two of its approaches to the sun. -- Periodic function , a function whose values
• INTERVALLUM
  An interval. And a' shall laugh without intervallums. Shak. In one of these intervalla. Chillingworth.
• STOPPING
  A partition or door to direct or prevent a current of air. (more info) 1. Material for filling a cavity.
• REPEALABILITY
  The quality or state of being repealable.
• STOPPAGE
  The act of stopping, or arresting progress, motion, or action; also, the state of being stopped; as, the stoppage of the circulation of the blood; the stoppage of commerce.
• ABOLITIONIST
  A person who favors the abolition of any institution, especially negro slavery.
• PERIODONTAL
  Surrounding the teeth.
• RESOLUTIONER
  One who makes a resolution; one who joins with others in a declaration or resolution; specifically, one of a party in the Scottish Church in the 17th century. He was sequestrated afterwards as a Resolutioner. Sir W. Scott.
• DISCONNECTION
  The act of disconnecting, or state of being disconnected; separation; want of union. Nothing was therefore to be left in all the subordinate members but weakness, disconnection, and confusion. Burke.
• DISESTABLISHMENT
  1. The act or process of unsettling or breaking up that which has been established; specifically, the withdrawal of the support of the state from an established church; as, the disestablishment and disendowment of the Irish Church by
• INTERRUPTION
  1. The act of interrupting, or breaking in upon. 2. The state of being interrupted; a breach or break, caused by the abrupt intervention of something foreign; intervention; interposition. Sir M. Hale. Lest the interruption of time cause you to
• ANSWER
  1. To speak in defense against; to reply to in defense; as, to answer a charge; to answer an accusation. 2. To speak or write in return to, as in return to a call or question, or to a speech, declaration, argument, or the like; to reply to ; to
• EXPLANATION
  1. The act of explaining, expounding, or interpreting; the act of clearing from obscurity and making intelligible; as, the explanation of a passage in Scripture, or of a contract or treaty. 2. That which explains or makes clear; as, a satisfactory
• INTERVAL
  Difference in pitch between any two tones. At intervals, coming or happening with intervals between; now and then. "And Miriam watch'd and dozed at intervals." Tennyson. -- Augmented interval , an interval increased by half a step or half a tone.
• CADENCE
  See CADENCY (more info) 1. The act or state of declining or sinking. Now was the sun in western cadence low. Milton. 2. A fall of the voice in reading or speaking, especially at the end of a sentence. 3.
• REPEAL
  re- re- + OF. apeler, F. appeler, to call, L. appellare. See Appeal, 1. To recall; to summon again, as persons. The banished Bolingbroke repeals himself, And with uplifted arms is safe arrived. Shak. 2. To recall, as a deed, will, law, or statute;
• TERMINATIONAL
  Of or pertaining to termination; forming a termination.
• PERIOD
  One of the great divisions of geological time; as, the Tertiary period; the Glacial period. See the Chart of Geology. 4. The termination or completion of a revolution, cycle, series of events, single event, or act; hence, a limit; a bound; an end;
• TERMINATION
  The ending of a word; a final syllable or letter; the part added to a stem in inflection. (more info) 1. The act of terminating, or of limiting or setting bounds; the act of ending or concluding; as, a voluntary termination of hostilities. 2. That
• SOLUTION
  The act or process by which a body (whether solid, liquid, or gaseous) is absorbed into a liquid, and, remaining or becoming fluid, is diffused throughout the solvent; also, the product reulting from such absorption. Note: When a solvent will not
• MONSEL'S SOLUTION
  An aqueous solution of Monsel's salt, having valuable styptic properties.
• MISCONCLUSION
  An erroneous inference or conclusion. Bp. Hall.
• NONSOLUTION
  Failure of solution or explanation.
• ANTIPERIODIC
  A remedy possessing the property of preventing the return of periodic paroxysms, or exacerbations, of disease, as in intermittent fevers.
• ALABAMA PERIOD
  A period in the American eocene, the lowest in the tertiary age except the lignitic.
• SELF-DETERMINATION
  Determination by one's self; or, determination of one's acts or states without the necessitating force of motives; -- applied to the voluntary or activity.
• IRREPEALABLE
  Not repealable; not capable of being repealed or revoked, as a law. -- Ir`re*peal"a*ble*ness, n. -- Ir`re*peal"a*bly, adv.
• CHAMPLAIN PERIOD
  A subdivision of the Quaternary age immediately following the Glacial period; -- so named from beds near Lake Champlain. Note: The earlier deposits of this period are diluvial in character, as if formed in connection with floods attending