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desist |
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desist Verb to stop doing: please desist from talking [Latin desistere]
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| The Grasshopper refused to desist, and chirped louder and louder the more the Owl entreated. "Lise, I beg you to desist," said Prince Andrew still more emphatically. I wish, Mr Square, you would desist from filling the minds of my pupils with such antichristian stuff; for the consequence must be, while they are under my care, its being well scourged out of them again. |
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