surcease Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a stopping
    cessation.
    • a cessation of the thunder

WordNet

Sur*cease" noun
Etymology
F. sursis, from sursis, p.p. of surseoir to suspend, postpone, defer, in OF., to delay, refrain from, forbear, L. supersedere. Surcease is not connected with E. cease. See Supersede.
Definitions
  1. Cessation; stop; end. "Not desire, but its surcease." Longfellow.
    It is time that there were an end and surcease made of this immodest and deformed manner of writing. Bacon.
Sur*cease" transitive verb
Definitions
  1. To cause to cease; to end. Obs. "The waves . . . their range surceast." Spenser.
    The nations, overawed, surceased the fight. Dryden.
Sur*cease" intransitive verb
Definitions
  1. To cease. Obs.

Webster 1913