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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.

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.

e; 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. Shak. Taught the Greek tongue, discontinued before in these parts the space of seven hundred years. Daniel. They modify and discriminate the voice, without…

One whose possession of an estate is broken off, or discontinued; one whose estate is subject to discontinuance.

One who discontinues, or breaks off or away from; an absentee. He was no gadder abroad, not discontinuer from his convent for a long time. Fuller.

Want of continuity or cohesion; disunion of parts. "Discontinuity of surface." Boyle.

One who deprives another of the possession of an estate by discontinuance. See Discontinuance, 2.

Not continuous; interrupted; broken off. A path that is zigzag, discontinuous, and intersected at every turn by human negligence. De Quincey.

Unsuitableness; incongruity. [Obs.] Bacon.

Not convenient or congruous; unsuitable; ill-adapted. [Obs.] Bp. Reynolds.

A division of acalephs or jellyfishes, including most of the large disklike species. -- Dis*coph"o*rous, a.

ce of unity or harmony in sentiment or action; variance leading to contention and strife; disagreement; -- applied to persons or to things, and to thoughts, feelings, or purposes. A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren. Prov. vi. 19. Peace to arise out of universal discord fomente…

That may produce discord; disagreeing; discordant. [R.] Halliwell.

State or quality of being discordant; disagreement; inconsistency. There will arise a thousand discordances of opinion. I. Taylor.

Disagreeing; incongruous; being at variance; clashing; opposing; not harmonious. The discordant elements out of which the emperor had compounded his realm did not coalesce. Motley.

Full of discord; contentious. [Obs.] "His discordful dame." Spenser.

Full of discord. [Obs.]

Deprived of the privileges or form of a body corporate. [Obs.] Jas. II.

Incongruous. W. Montagu.

Same as Discoast. [Obs.]