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<p><b>2.</b> <def>Causing discontent; dissatisfying.</def>

<i>Milton.</i>

<h1>Discontentive</h1> <Xpage=421>

<hw>Dis`con*tent"ive</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Relating or tending to discontent.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark> "Pride is ever <i>discontentive</i>."

<i>Feltham.</i>

<h1>Discontentment</h1> <Xpage=421>

<hw>Dis`con*tent"ment</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>The state of being discontented; uneasiness; inquietude.</def>

<i>Bacon.</i>

<h1>Discontinuable</h1> <Xpage=421>

<hw>Dis`con*tin"u*a*ble</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Admitting of being discontinued.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<h1>Discontinuance</h1> <Xpage=421>

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

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Law)</fld> <sd>(a)</sd> <def>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.</def> <sd>(b)</sd> <def>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.</def> <sd>(c)</sd> <def>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.</def>

<i>Wharton's Law Dict. Burrill.</i>

<syn>Syn. -- Cessation; intermission; discontinuation; separation; disunion; disjunction; disruption; break.</syn>

<h1>Discontinuation</h1> <Xpage=421>

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

<blockquote>Upon any <b>discontinuation</b> of parts, made either by bubbles or by shaking the glass, the whole mercury falls. <i>Sir I. Newton.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Discontinue</h1> <Xpage=421>

<hw>Dis`con*tin"ue</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Discontinued</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Discontinuing</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[Cf. F. <ets>discontinuer</ets>.]</ety> <def>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.</def>

<blockquote>Set up their conventicles again, which had been <b>discontinued</b>. <i>Bp. Burnet.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>I have <b>discontinued</b> school Above a twelvemonth. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>Taught the Greek tongue, <b>discontinued</b> before in these parts the space of seven hundred years. <i>Daniel.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>They modify and discriminate the voice, without appearing to <b>discontinue</b> it. <i>Holder.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Discontinue</h1> <Xpage=421>

<hw>Dis`con*tin"ue</hw>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To lose continuity or cohesion of parts; to be disrupted or broken off.</def>

<i>Bacon.</i>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To be separated or severed; to part.</def>