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Cessation; stop; end.

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  1. n. Cessation; stop; end.
  2. v. t. To cause to cease; to end.
  3. v. i. To cease.
  4. n. a stopping
  5. Cessation; stop; end. "Not desire, but its surcease."Longfellow.It is time that there were an end and surcease made of this immodestand deformed manner of writing. Bacon.