discontinuancen.

Brit.

/ˌdɪskənˈtɪnjʊəns/, U.S.

/ˌdɪskənˈtɪnjʊəns/

Forms: Middle English discontenuaunce, Middle English discontynuaunce, Middle English dyscontenuaunce, Middle English–1500s discontinuaunce, Middle English–1500s discontynuance, Middle English–1500s dyscontynuaunce, Middle English– discontinuance.

Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French discontinuance.

Etymology: < Anglo-Norman discontinuance, discontinuaunce (a1305 or earlier) < discontinuer discontinue v. + -ance -ance suffix.

1. The action of discontinuing or breaking off; temporary or permanent interruption of continuity in time or (occasionally) space; cessation; intermission. Also: an instance of this; a cessation. Cf. discontinuation n. 2a, discontinuity n. 1.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > ceasing > [noun]

lissc1000

ceasec1330

stintc1330

stinting1338

ceasinga1340

discontinuancea1398

cessationa1400

leaving-off?a1425

surceasingc1435

disusage1475

stop1483

staying1546

discontinuation1572

discontinuing1582

surcease1590

stintance1605

cessure1607

desisting1607

avocationa1617

desistance1632

sistencea1639

surceasementa1641

supersession1648

dispractice1673

breaking-off1683

estoppage1701

cess1703

cesser1809

shutdown1857

stoppage1865

shut-off1889

sign-off1919

a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) I. viii. xxviii. 511 Schinynge comeþ of liȝt wiþoute wanyynge of liȝt, and..wiþoute discontenuaunce [L. discontinuatione] þerof.

1489 W. Caxton tr. C. de Pisan Bk. Fayttes of Armes i. viii. sig. Bij^v The romayns in lyke wyse..lefte on a tyme thexcercyte of armes, whiche by theyr discontynuaunce they were by hanybal..desconfyted.

1598 R. Barret Theorike & Pract. Mod. Warres iii. 31 My fiue or six yeares discontinuance from action.

1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 651 And not suffer the auncient custome..by use and discontinuance to be utterly neglected.

1656 B. Harris tr. J. N. de Parival Hist. Iron Age i. ii. xiii. 196 Baron John de Werdt..shewed that he had not forgotten his Trade by the discontinuance thereof.

1748 J. Towne Crit. Inq. Anc. Philosophers (ed. 2) 106 The Discontinuance of our very Life and Being.

1796 F. Burney Camilla I. i. vi. 105 An entire discontinuance of all pupilage and tutorship.

1835 Niles' Weekly Reg. 23 May 213/2 The revisers recommended a discontinuance of public executions.

1886 R. Willis & J. W. Clark Archit. Hist. Univ. Cambr. II. 307 The discontinuance of an external stringcourse.

1914 G. B. Shaw Parents & Children in Misalliance p. c The last ray of art is being cut off from our schools by the discontinuance of religious education.

1980 V. G. Rao Corporation Income Tax in India i. 16 The revenue expected as a result of this discontinuance [of the development rebate] would be substantial.

2006 J. P. Bloch Everything Health Guide Adult Bipolar Disorder vi. 73 Abrupt discontinuance of lithium generally leads to an intense manic episode.

2. Law.

a. With reference to land or property: an interruption or breaking off of a right of possession or of entry, resulting from a wrongful alienation by the tenant in possession. Cf. discontinue v. 3a. Now historical.

ΘΚΠ

society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > [noun] > interruption of right of possession

discontinuance1442

discontinuation1721

1442 Rolls of Parl.: Henry VI (Electronic ed.) Parl. Jan. 1442 §12. m. 12 The seid lordships, manoirs, londes, tenementz, fees, advoesons, possessions and enheritances..that the seid suppliant entred ynne as afore, as be eny discontinuance of theym or eny parcell of theym.

1495 Rolls of Parl.: Henry VII (Electronic ed.) Parl. Oct. 1495 §60. m. 32 All suche recovereez discontynuance, alienacions..be utterly viode [read voide].

1528–30 tr. T. Littleton Tenures (new ed.) f. xlvii^v Also yf tenaunt in the tayle be dysseased & he releaseth by his dede to the dysseysour & to his heyres all the ryght that he hathe in the same lande this is no dyscontynuaunce.

1651 tr. J. Kitchin Jurisdictions 302 A Grant without Livery doth not make discontinuance.

1656 tr. R. Hutton Reports 126 If the Lease had been made solely by Tenant in tail,..then it were a Discontinuance.

1768 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. III. 171 The injury of discontinuance.

1850 C. Hammond Cases decided in Supreme Court of Ohio II. 119 If tenant in tail, aliens in fee, although this is not a forfeiture, it is a discontinuance.

1883 F. Pollock Land Laws iv. 78 The effect of a feoffment by him..was to work a discontinuance; that is, his issue had after his death no right to enter on the land and turn out the intruder, but had to resort to the expensive course of asserting their title by process of law.

1906 Harvard Law Rev. 19 270 A feoffment by a tenant in tail in fee or in tail, or for the life of the feoffee was a discontinuance.

1992 Amer. Jrnl. Legal Hist. 36 91 A tenant in tail who had discontinued could not have access to his previous entailed title because the discontinuance put it in the custody of the law.

b. The interruption or dismissal of a suit, esp. by reason of the plaintiff's omission of the formalities necessary to keep it pending. Also (now usually): the abandonment of a suit by the plaintiff.

ΘΚΠ

society > law > administration of justice > court proceedings or procedure > action of courts in claims or grievances > [noun] > a lawsuit > interruption or postponement of suit

continuance1425

discontinuance1489

miscontinuance1607

1489–90 Rolls of Parl.: Henry VII (Electronic ed.) Parl. Jan. 1489 §10. m. 3 Þe seid discontinuaunce, or eny nonsuyt of or in þe seid atteint.

1540 Act 32 Hen. VIII c. 30. §1 Any miscontinuance or discontinuance or misconueiyng of process.

1607 J. Cowell Interpreter sig. Z2/2 The effect of discontinuance of plee that the instance is fallen, and may not be taken vp again, but by a new writ to begin the suite a fresh.

1613 H. Finch Law (1636) 431 If the Plaintife do nothing, it is called a discontinuance: if any errour bee in the continuing, as by awarding a Capias where a distresse should bee, it is called a miscontinuance.

1721 W. Hawkins Treat. Pleas Crown II. xxiii. 194 Nor can I find it any where adjudged, That the Discontinuance of one Appeal is a Bar of another.

1745 Act for Repairing High Road from Boroughbridge 22 If the Plaintiff or Plaintiffs shall become Nonsuited, or suffer a Discontinuance of his, her or their Action or Actions.

1800 E. Pendleton Let. Dec. in Lett. & Papers (1967) II. 682 Or is it like the continuance of a legal suit, sine die, making a discontinuance?

1884 Law Times Rep. 10 May 322/1 What the plaintiff has done amounts to a discontinuance of his original action.

1909 District Rep. State of Pennsylvania 18 681 This court has the right to strike from the record a discontinuance of a case improperly or improvidently entered.

1946 Billboard 29 June 22/1 With the discontinuance of the suit, the court and the attorneys drew up terms by which the coming elections..shall be conducted.

2006 ICSID Arbitration Rules in L. A. Mistelis Conc. Internat. Arbitration (2010) 286 Rule 44 provides for the discontinuance of proceedings at the unilateral request of a party.

†3. Mathematics. Of proportion: the condition of being discrete (discrete adj. 2b). Cf. discontinual adj. 2. Obsolete. rare.

ΚΠ

1570 H. Billingsley tr. Euclid Elements Geom. v. f. 130^v By reason of the discontinuaunce of the proportions in this proportionalitie.

†4. A (temporary) ceasing to reside or be present in a place; absence. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > place > absence > [noun]

absencec1384

non-being1455

wantc1508

absenty1520

lack1548

discontinuance1583

absency1599

negativeness1876

not-thereness1902

1583 P. Stubbes Anat. Abuses sig. B.i It was bruted abroad euery where in our countrey (by reason of your discontinuance, I thinke) that you were dead.

1633 T. Heywood Eng. Trav. iii, in Wks. (1874) IV. 59 Hee writes mee heere, That at my discontinuance hee's much grieu'd.

1641 Naunton's Fragmenta Regalia sig. D3^v They quit him for a person..of too often regresse and discontinuance from the Queenes presence.

1677 S. Herne Domus Carthusiana 188 Their time of discontinuance is usually excepted in the Certificate.

5. Absence of physical continuity in a substance or object; an instance of this, a physical discontinuity (= discontinuity n. 2).

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > separation or breaking up into constituent parts > [noun] > incohesion

discontinuance1626

incohesion1882

the world > space > relative position > condition or fact of being interjacent > [noun] > and dividing

interruptiona1676

discontinuance1726

cut-off1881

1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §24 If there bee no Remedy, then they [sc. falling streams of water] cast themselues into round Drops; Which is the Figure that saueth the Body most from Discontinuance.

1675 R. Boyle Let. 26 Oct. in Corr. (2001) IV. 399 I attribute most [magnetism] to the great & continuall discontinuance of the air between Bodys; whereby the pressure of the air is also continually discontinued.

1726 G. Leoni tr. L. B. Alberti Architecture II. 105/1 At the distance of every hundred foot the line is broken off by a kind of transverse step, which makes a discontinuance in the layer.

1829 R. Duppa Trav. Continent (ed. 2) 404 They exhibit this peculiarity, a discontinuance of the fluting at the lower part of the shaft, which is to be found in no other temple.

1961 Heating & Air Conditioning Ducts (National Acad. Sci.-National Res. Council (U.S.)) 9 A complete enclosure of not less than 2 inches of concrete..without voids, fissures, or other discontinuances.

2008 D. Watch Building Type Basics for Res. Laboratories (ed. 2) 203/2 High turbulence caused by discontinuance in the duct system can be a concern.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	discontinuance
释义	discontinuancen. Brit. /ˌdɪskənˈtɪnjʊəns/, U.S. /ˌdɪskənˈtɪnjʊəns/ Forms: Middle English discontenuaunce, Middle English discontynuaunce, Middle English dyscontenuaunce, Middle English–1500s discontinuaunce, Middle English–1500s discontynuance, Middle English–1500s dyscontynuaunce, Middle English– discontinuance. Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French discontinuance. Etymology: < Anglo-Norman discontinuance, discontinuaunce (a1305 or earlier) < discontinuer discontinue v. + -ance -ance suffix. 1. The action of discontinuing or breaking off; temporary or permanent interruption of continuity in time or (occasionally) space; cessation; intermission. Also: an instance of this; a cessation. Cf. discontinuation n. 2a, discontinuity n. 1. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > ceasing > [noun] lissc1000 ceasec1330 stintc1330 stinting1338 ceasinga1340 discontinuancea1398 cessationa1400 leaving-off?a1425 surceasingc1435 disusage1475 stop1483 staying1546 discontinuation1572 discontinuing1582 surcease1590 stintance1605 cessure1607 desisting1607 avocationa1617 desistance1632 sistencea1639 surceasementa1641 supersession1648 dispractice1673 breaking-off1683 estoppage1701 cess1703 cesser1809 shutdown1857 stoppage1865 shut-off1889 sign-off1919 a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) I. viii. xxviii. 511 Schinynge comeþ of liȝt wiþoute wanyynge of liȝt, and..wiþoute discontenuaunce [L. discontinuatione] þerof. 1489 W. Caxton tr. C. de Pisan Bk. Fayttes of Armes i. viii. sig. Bij^v The romayns in lyke wyse..lefte on a tyme thexcercyte of armes, whiche by theyr discontynuaunce they were by hanybal..desconfyted. 1598 R. Barret Theorike & Pract. Mod. Warres iii. 31 My fiue or six yeares discontinuance from action. 1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 651 And not suffer the auncient custome..by use and discontinuance to be utterly neglected. 1656 B. Harris tr. J. N. de Parival Hist. Iron Age i. ii. xiii. 196 Baron John de Werdt..shewed that he had not forgotten his Trade by the discontinuance thereof. 1748 J. Towne Crit. Inq. Anc. Philosophers (ed. 2) 106 The Discontinuance of our very Life and Being. 1796 F. Burney Camilla I. i. vi. 105 An entire discontinuance of all pupilage and tutorship. 1835 Niles' Weekly Reg. 23 May 213/2 The revisers recommended a discontinuance of public executions. 1886 R. Willis & J. W. Clark Archit. Hist. Univ. Cambr. II. 307 The discontinuance of an external stringcourse. 1914 G. B. Shaw Parents & Children in Misalliance p. c The last ray of art is being cut off from our schools by the discontinuance of religious education. 1980 V. G. Rao Corporation Income Tax in India i. 16 The revenue expected as a result of this discontinuance [of the development rebate] would be substantial. 2006 J. P. Bloch Everything Health Guide Adult Bipolar Disorder vi. 73 Abrupt discontinuance of lithium generally leads to an intense manic episode. 2. Law. a. With reference to land or property: an interruption or breaking off of a right of possession or of entry, resulting from a wrongful alienation by the tenant in possession. Cf. discontinue v. 3a. Now historical. ΘΚΠ society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > [noun] > interruption of right of possession discontinuance1442 discontinuation1721 1442 Rolls of Parl.: Henry VI (Electronic ed.) Parl. Jan. 1442 §12. m. 12 The seid lordships, manoirs, londes, tenementz, fees, advoesons, possessions and enheritances..that the seid suppliant entred ynne as afore, as be eny discontinuance of theym or eny parcell of theym. 1495 Rolls of Parl.: Henry VII (Electronic ed.) Parl. Oct. 1495 §60. m. 32 All suche recovereez discontynuance, alienacions..be utterly viode [read voide]. 1528–30 tr. T. Littleton Tenures (new ed.) f. xlvii^v Also yf tenaunt in the tayle be dysseased & he releaseth by his dede to the dysseysour & to his heyres all the ryght that he hathe in the same lande this is no dyscontynuaunce. 1651 tr. J. Kitchin Jurisdictions 302 A Grant without Livery doth not make discontinuance. 1656 tr. R. Hutton Reports 126 If the Lease had been made solely by Tenant in tail,..then it were a Discontinuance. 1768 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. III. 171 The injury of discontinuance. 1850 C. Hammond Cases decided in Supreme Court of Ohio II. 119 If tenant in tail, aliens in fee, although this is not a forfeiture, it is a discontinuance. 1883 F. Pollock Land Laws iv. 78 The effect of a feoffment by him..was to work a discontinuance; that is, his issue had after his death no right to enter on the land and turn out the intruder, but had to resort to the expensive course of asserting their title by process of law. 1906 Harvard Law Rev. 19 270 A feoffment by a tenant in tail in fee or in tail, or for the life of the feoffee was a discontinuance. 1992 Amer. Jrnl. Legal Hist. 36 91 A tenant in tail who had discontinued could not have access to his previous entailed title because the discontinuance put it in the custody of the law. b. The interruption or dismissal of a suit, esp. by reason of the plaintiff's omission of the formalities necessary to keep it pending. Also (now usually): the abandonment of a suit by the plaintiff. ΘΚΠ society > law > administration of justice > court proceedings or procedure > action of courts in claims or grievances > [noun] > a lawsuit > interruption or postponement of suit continuance1425 discontinuance1489 miscontinuance1607 1489–90 Rolls of Parl.: Henry VII (Electronic ed.) Parl. Jan. 1489 §10. m. 3 Þe seid discontinuaunce, or eny nonsuyt of or in þe seid atteint. 1540 Act 32 Hen. VIII c. 30. §1 Any miscontinuance or discontinuance or misconueiyng of process. 1607 J. Cowell Interpreter sig. Z2/2 The effect of discontinuance of plee that the instance is fallen, and may not be taken vp again, but by a new writ to begin the suite a fresh. 1613 H. Finch Law (1636) 431 If the Plaintife do nothing, it is called a discontinuance: if any errour bee in the continuing, as by awarding a Capias where a distresse should bee, it is called a miscontinuance. 1721 W. Hawkins Treat. Pleas Crown II. xxiii. 194 Nor can I find it any where adjudged, That the Discontinuance of one Appeal is a Bar of another. 1745 Act for Repairing High Road from Boroughbridge 22 If the Plaintiff or Plaintiffs shall become Nonsuited, or suffer a Discontinuance of his, her or their Action or Actions. 1800 E. Pendleton Let. Dec. in Lett. & Papers (1967) II. 682 Or is it like the continuance of a legal suit, sine die, making a discontinuance? 1884 Law Times Rep. 10 May 322/1 What the plaintiff has done amounts to a discontinuance of his original action. 1909 District Rep. State of Pennsylvania 18 681 This court has the right to strike from the record a discontinuance of a case improperly or improvidently entered. 1946 Billboard 29 June 22/1 With the discontinuance of the suit, the court and the attorneys drew up terms by which the coming elections..shall be conducted. 2006 ICSID Arbitration Rules in L. A. Mistelis Conc. Internat. Arbitration (2010) 286 Rule 44 provides for the discontinuance of proceedings at the unilateral request of a party. †3. Mathematics. Of proportion: the condition of being discrete (discrete adj. 2b). Cf. discontinual adj. 2. Obsolete. rare. ΚΠ 1570 H. Billingsley tr. Euclid Elements Geom. v. f. 130^v By reason of the discontinuaunce of the proportions in this proportionalitie. †4. A (temporary) ceasing to reside or be present in a place; absence. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > space > place > absence > [noun] absencec1384 non-being1455 wantc1508 absenty1520 lack1548 discontinuance1583 absency1599 negativeness1876 not-thereness1902 1583 P. Stubbes Anat. Abuses sig. B.i It was bruted abroad euery where in our countrey (by reason of your discontinuance, I thinke) that you were dead. 1633 T. Heywood Eng. Trav. iii, in Wks. (1874) IV. 59 Hee writes mee heere, That at my discontinuance hee's much grieu'd. 1641 Naunton's Fragmenta Regalia sig. D3^v They quit him for a person..of too often regresse and discontinuance from the Queenes presence. 1677 S. Herne Domus Carthusiana 188 Their time of discontinuance is usually excepted in the Certificate. 5. Absence of physical continuity in a substance or object; an instance of this, a physical discontinuity (= discontinuity n. 2). ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > separation or breaking up into constituent parts > [noun] > incohesion discontinuance1626 incohesion1882 the world > space > relative position > condition or fact of being interjacent > [noun] > and dividing interruptiona1676 discontinuance1726 cut-off1881 1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §24 If there bee no Remedy, then they [sc. falling streams of water] cast themselues into round Drops; Which is the Figure that saueth the Body most from Discontinuance. 1675 R. Boyle Let. 26 Oct. in Corr. (2001) IV. 399 I attribute most [magnetism] to the great & continuall discontinuance of the air between Bodys; whereby the pressure of the air is also continually discontinued. 1726 G. Leoni tr. L. B. Alberti Architecture II. 105/1 At the distance of every hundred foot the line is broken off by a kind of transverse step, which makes a discontinuance in the layer. 1829 R. Duppa Trav. Continent (ed. 2) 404 They exhibit this peculiarity, a discontinuance of the fluting at the lower part of the shaft, which is to be found in no other temple. 1961 Heating & Air Conditioning Ducts (National Acad. Sci.-National Res. Council (U.S.)) 9 A complete enclosure of not less than 2 inches of concrete..without voids, fissures, or other discontinuances. 2008 D. Watch Building Type Basics for Res. Laboratories (ed. 2) 203/2 High turbulence caused by discontinuance in the duct system can be a concern. 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