Part 335

Now is the winter of our discontent Made glorious summer by this sun of York.

Shak.

The rapacity of his father's administration had excited such universal discontent.

Hallam

2. A discontented person; a malcontent. [R.]

Thus was the Scotch nation full of discontents.

Fuller.

Dis*con`ten*ta"tion (?), n. Discontent. [Obs.] Ascham.

Dis`con*tent"ed (?), p. p. & a. Dissatisfied; uneasy in mind; malcontent.

And every one that was in distress, and every one that was in debt, and every one that was discontented, gathered themselves unto him.

1 Sam. xxii. 2.

-- Dis`con*tent"ed*ly, adv. -- Dis`con*tent"ed*ness, n.

Dis`con*tent"ful (?), a. Full of discontent. [R.]

Dis`con*tent"ing, a. 1. Discontented. [Obs.] Shak.

2. Causing discontent; dissatisfying. Milton.

Dis`con*tent"ive (?), a. Relating or tending to discontent. [R.] "Pride is ever discontentive." Feltham.

Dis`con*tent"ment (?), n. The state of being discontented; uneasiness; inquietude. Bacon.

Dis`con*tin"u*a*ble (?), a. Admitting of being discontinued. [R.]

Dis`con*tin"u*ance (?), n. 1. The act of discontinuing, or the state of being discontinued; want of continued connection or continuity; breaking off; cessation; interruption; as, a discontinuance of conversation or intercourse; discontinuance of a highway or of travel.

2. (Law) (a) A breaking off or interruption of an estate, which happened when an alienation was made by a tenant in tail, or other tenant, seized in right of another, of a larger estate than the tenant was entitled to, whereby the party ousted or injured was driven to his real action, and could not enter. This effect of such alienation is now obviated by statute in both England and the United States. (b) The termination of an action in practice by the voluntary act of the plaintiff; an entry on the record that the plaintiff discontinues his action. (c) That technical interruption of the proceedings in pleading in an action, which follows where a defendant does not answer the whole of the plaintiff's declaration, and the plaintiff omits to take judgment for the part unanswered. Wharton's Law Dict. Burrill.

Syn. -- Cessation; intermission; discontinuation; separation; disunion; disjunction; disruption; break.

Dis`con*tin`u*a"tion (?), n. [Cf. F. discontinuation.] Breach or interruption of continuity; separation of parts in a connected series; discontinuance.

Upon any discontinuation of parts, made either by bubbles or by shaking the glass, the whole mercury falls.

Sir I. Newton.

Dis`con*tin"ue (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Discontinued (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Discontinuing.] [Cf. F. discontinuer.] To interrupt the continuance of; to intermit, as a practice or habit; to put an end to; to cause to cease; to cease using, to stop; to leave off.

Set up their conventicles again, which had been discontinued.

Bp. Burnet.

I have discontinued school Above a twelvemonth.