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Inactive; dormant [Obs.] W. Montagu.

See Acescency, Acescent. [Obs.]

following without interruption; unceasing; unitermitted; uninterrupted; continual; as, incessant clamors; incessant pain, etc. Against the castle gate, . . . Which with incessant force and endless hate, They batter'd day and night and entrance did await. Spenser.

Unceasingly; continually. Shak.

Incessant. [Obs.] Dr. H. More. -- Un*ces"sant*ly, adv. [Obs.]

Given to laughter; inclined to foolish or incessant merriment.

'd by despair, he stood at bay. Dryden. The most terrible evils are just kept at bay by incessant efforts. I. Taylor

ieve the tedium or weariness of; to while away; to divert. Ballads . . . to beguile his incessant wayfaring. W. Irving.

To talk to incessantly or confidentially in a low humming voice. [Colloq.]

Without pause or end; incessant.

To utter loudly or repeatedly; to shout. Clamored their piteous prayer incessantly. Longfellow. To clamor bells, to repeat the strokes quickly so as to produce a loud clang. Bp. Warbur

A flash of intellectual brilliancy. He might have illuminated his times with the incessant cor of his genius. I. Taylor.

om an ulcer; the efflux of men's piety. It is then that the devout affections . . . are incessantly in efflux. I. Taylor.

Continual; incessant; unintermitted.

A general nervous restlessness, manifested by incessant changes of position; dysphoria. Dunglison.

he quality of being importunate; pressing or pertinacious solicitation; urgent request; incessant or frequent application; troublesome pertinacity. O'ercome with importunity and tears. Milton.

The quality of being incessant; unintermitted continuance; unceasingness. Dr. T. Dwight.

es, so constructed that their ends lead to their beginnings, and the performance may be incessantly repeated. Moore (Encyc. of Music).

djacent district; environs; neighborhood. "The purlieus of St. James." brokers had been incessantly plying for custom in the purlieus of the court. Macaulay.

l. This day in mirth and revel to dispend. Chaucer. Some men ruin . . . their bodies by incessant revels. Rambler. Master of the revels, Revel master. Same as Lord of misrule, under Lord.