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as, the longer we continue in sin, the more difficult it is to reform. "Yet not the more cease I." Milton. So much the rather thou, Celestial Light, Shine inward, and the mind through all her powers Irradiate. Milton.

ierarchy; -- a meaning given by the schoolmen. Milton. Great Sire! whom thrones celestial ceaseless sing. Young.

mmortal life; definite, as contrasted with infinite, duration. Till time and sin together cease. Keble.

A stone erected over a grave, to preserve the memory of the deceased.

fference. -- To turn a corner, to go round a corner. -- To turn adrift, to cast off, to cease to care for. -- To turn a flange (Mech.), to form a flange on, as around a metal sheet or boiler plate, by stretching, bending, and hammering, or rolling the metal. -- To turn against. (a) To direct against; as, to turn on…

To cease to be bent; to become straight or relaxed.

To cease from clinging or adhering. [Obs.] Milton.

To cease to frequent. [Obs.] They quit their thefts and unfrequent the fields. J. Philips.

To cease to hold; to unhand; to release. [Obs.] Otway.

To cause to cease to be a king. [R.] Shall his condescension, therefore, unking him South.

To cease to know; to lose the knowledge of. [Obs.]

To cease to love; to hate. [Obs.]

To cause to cease to be pagan; to divest of pagan character. [R.] Cudworth.

To cease from being ruffled or agitated. Dryden.

To cause to cease being weary; to refresh. [Obs.] Dryden.

To make vacant; to leave empty; to cease from filling or occupying; as, it was resolved by Parliament that James had vacated the throne of England; the tenant vacated the house.

d or sentence, in speaking or writing, without wishing to do so or in spite of efforts to cease. -- Ver*big`er*a"tion (#), n.

By the existing laws, the rank of admiral and vice admiral in the United States Navy will cease at the death of the present incumbents. (b) A civil officer, in Great Britain, appointed by the lords commissioners of the admiralty for exercising admiralty jurisdiction within their respective districts. -- Vice admiralty…

small arms. Fiery darts in flaming volleys flew. Milton. Each volley tells that thousands cease to breathe. Byron.

To be excited or roused from sleep; to awake; to be awakened; to cease to sleep; -- often with up. He infallibly woke up at the sound of the concluding doxology. G. Eliot.