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▪ I. intermission1|ɪntəˈmɪʃən|
[ad. L. intermissiōn-em, n. of action f. intermittĕre to intermit v.1 Cf. F. intermission (1413 in Hatz.-Darm.).]
1. a. The fact of intermitting, giving over, or ceasing for a time; a temporary pause, cessation, or breach of continuity in an action, state, etc. (freq. in phr. without intermission). spec. in Path., of a fever or the pulse.
1526Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W. 1531) 88 Euermore to praye without intermyssyon or ceasynge. 1576Fleming Panopl. Epist. 86 Your friende Anthonie, kindleth coles of furious outrage continually, and maketh no intermission. 1590Swinburne Testaments 39 In this case is the testament voide, vnlesse that it may bee prooued, that there was intermission of furor the same time. 1600Shakes. A.Y.L. ii. vii. 32 And I did laugh, sans intermission, An houre by his diall. 1613Purchas Pilgrimage (1614) 741 They saw a whirle-winde take up the water..into the aire, three houres together with little intermission. 1769Robertson Chas. V (1796) III. xii. 392 The gout after a longer intermission than usual returned. 1791Cowper Iliad i. 118 Neither end, nor intermission of his heavy scourge. 1869Phillips Vesuv. viii. 226 This eruption lasted two nights and two days without intermission.
b. Temporary cessation, respite, relief, rest, pause. Const. from something. Now rare.
1576Fleming Panopl. Epist. 63 Your overwearied heart, which brayeth after intermission and rest from..great matters. 1667Milton P.L. ii. 802 They..Afresh with conscious terrors vex me round That rest or intermission none I find. 1756Burke Subl. & B. i. v, He often gives himself some intermission from such melancholy reflections. 1834Medwin Angler in Wales I. 232 We had hardly a moment's intermission from rain.
2. The lapse of a space of time between events or periods of action; the time during which action temporarily ceases; interval; † vacation, recess. spec. = the interval between the parts of a play, film, concert, etc. (chiefly U.S.).
1563–7Buchanan Reform. St. Andros Wks. (1892) 13 The medicinis lesson, quha sal reid on to ix houris; and fra ix to ten salbe intermission. 1660Milton Free Commw. Wks. (1847) 448/1 The grand council, which..should sit perpetually (unless their leisure give them now and then some intermissions or vacations). 1704Swift Mech. Operat. Spir. Misc. (1711) 286 Chusing their Time in those Intermissions while the Preacher is at Ebb. 1854E. G. Holland Mem. Jos. Badger xv. 310 At the intermission many strangers flocked around me. 1927N.Y. World 24 July, Intermission, interval. 1933H. Footner Ring of Eyes xv. 104 When the curtain descended for the intermission, [etc.]. 1955Keepnews & Grauer Pict. Hist. Jazz xvi. 197 Nick Rongetti..loved to join the intermission pianist. 1956B. Holiday Lady sings Blues (1973) iii. 37 In between ups,..there was Garland Wilson at the piano for intermission. 1961Listener 7 Dec. 1002/2 Rocco does have an intermission, but when a film is [etc.].
†3. An omission in the course of a narrative.
a1635Naunton Fragm. Reg. (Arb.) 41 Having..toucht [this subject] somewhat, which I would not, if the equity of the Narration would have admitted an intermission.
4. An interruption or break of continuity in a wall, line of cliffs, or similar material formation.
1624Wotton Archit. in Reliq. (1651) 223 Wals are either entire and continuall, or intermitted; and the Intermissions be either Pillars or Pylasters. 1663Charleton Chor. Gigant. 19 Intermissions made by Columns or Pillars. 1853Kane Grinnell Exp. xxxi. (1856) 270 After a mile or two of intermission, the high cliffs rise up again in abutments.
▪ II. † interˈmission2 Obs. rare.
[f. intermit v.2, after prec.]
1. Mediation, intervention; = intermise.
1647Lilly Chr. Astrol. liii. 372 They shall agree without Suit of law, but not without intermission of a third party or more. 1670Heylin Hist. Presbyt. 126 That no other..Towns..shall in any part meddle by way of friendly intermission tending to an accord.
2. Interposition, intervention (of a thing).
1628T. Spencer Logick 100 Aristotle sayth, that this opposition is made by it selfe, and wants the intermission of a third: for no power can put a third thing betweene being and not being. 1667Marvell Corr. lxxviii. Wks. 1872–5 II. 222 The third day that the Lords have, without intermission of any other businesse, continued upon the question. |