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interruption|ɪntəˈrʌpʃən|
Also 5 intrumpcioun, interupcion, 6 intrupcion.
[ad. L. interruptiōn-em, n. of action from interrupĕre to interrupt: cf. F. interruption (1437 in Hatz.-Darm.).]
The action of interrupting, or fact of being interrupted (in the various senses of the verb); with an and pl., an instance of this.
1. A breaking in upon some action, process, or condition (esp. speech or discourse), so as to cause it (usually temporarily) to cease; hindrance of the course or continuance of something; a breach of continuity in time; a stoppage.
1489Caxton Faytes of A. iv. x. 255 Take not now in anger yf I putte interrupcyon in thy wordes for a questyon that I wil aske of the. 1494Fabyan Chron. vii. 336 The cytezyns enioyed theyr lybertyes without interupcion. 1587Golding De Mornay xxxiii. 536 We would impute al those interruptions and changes to the nature of nature it selfe. 1660Milton Free Commw. Wks. (1847) 445/2 The frequent disturbances, interruptions, and dissolutions which the parliament hath had. 1797Burke Corr. IV. 423, I still go on with the work I have in hand, but with terrible interruptions. 1868Helps Realmah ii. (1876) 14 Ellesmere, who is the greatest of interrupters, is the most intolerant of any interruption but his own.
b. In weakened sense (with negative expressed or implied): Temporary cessation, intermission.
1607E. Grimstone tr. Goulart's Mem. Hist. 76 She continued sixe monethes..to drinke daylie, without interruption foureteene pounds of water. 1857Buckle Civiliz. I. xiv. 823 That process by which our bodies receive some substances and give out others, admits of no interruption.
2. A breach of continuity in space or serial order; a break; the formation or existence of a gap or void interval.
1390Gower Conf. I. 37 If a man were Mad al togedre of o matiere Wiþouten interrupcion. 1601Holland Pliny I. 127 The mountains, which in a continuall raunge without interruption stand vpon the coasts of the Ocean. 1695Woodward Nat. Hist. Earth (1723) 11 The Interruptions of the Strata. 1853Kane Grinnell Exp. xxxv. (1856) 322 Dr. Vreeland and myself witnessed repeatedly interruptions of their continuity. 1884Bower & Scott De Bary's Phaner. 422 The most frequent form of local interruption of the fibrous sheath..consists in the presence of a gap of greater or less extent, filled up by comparatively thin-walled parenchyma.
†b. The action of breaking in between two things; irruption. Obs.
a1677Hale Prim. Orig. Man. ii. ix. 216 Places severed from the Continent by the interruption of the Sea.
†3. The action, or an act, of hindering or thwarting; hindrance, obstruction. Obs.
1463Mann. & Househ. Exp. (Roxb.) 187 To enjoye our sayd lycence wyth outyn any let, interupcyon or impediment. c1475Pol. Poems (Rolls) II. 274 The cardenall uppone his hede the crowne did sett, The septure in his honde, withowte intrumpcioun or lett. 1556J. Heywood Spider & F. vii. 41 Of iustice no let ledeth intrupcion, Like this loue (named selfe loue) growne of corrupcion. 1595Shakes. John iii. iv. 9 Diuers deere friends slain? And bloudy England into England gone, Ore-bearing interruption spight of France?
4. Sc. Law. ‘The step legally requisite to stop the currency of the period of a prescription’ (Bell Dict. Law Scot.).
1615Burgh Rec. Aberdeen (Spalding Club) II. 322 Of the quhilk hous, Williame Gray, baillie, tuik doune ane dovet [= turf] in takine of lauchfull interruptione, and fand the said halff pennie hous and landis..to apperteine in propertie to the said towne of Aberdeine. 1681Stair Inst. Law Scot. (1693) ii. xii. §26 The main Exception or Reply against Prescription, is Interruption, not only by the discontinuing the Possession of the whole, but also of a part, which was found sufficient to interrupt the Prescription as to the whole. 1861W. Bell Dict. Law Scot. s.v. Prescription, An interruption on the last day of the forty years will be effectual. |