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Definition of Cessing
1. cess [v] - See also: cess
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cessing
Literary usage of Cessing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The New Testament in Scots by Murdoch Nisbet, Thomas Graves Law, Joseph Hall, Martin Luther, John Purvey, John Wycliffe, William Tyndale (1903)
"¡¡ua mare ioy ye ; 17 î Without cessing pray ye ; 18 Jn Eph'evb ... 244), * Fray
without cessing ' : id» (p. 247), * Pray continually and cease nocht. ..."
2. Scot. Text S. by Scottish Text Society (1903)
"Without cessing : sine ... 244), ' Pray without cessing ': id. (p. 247), ' Pray
continually and cease nocht. ..."
3. Illustrations of Irish History and Topography, Mainly of the Seventeenth by Caesar Litton Falkiner, Fynes Moryson, Josias Bodley, Luke Gernon, William Brereton, Albert Jouvin (1904)
"Provided always that this cessing should be to the King's profit only, ...
As this cessing was thought to be most profitable to the state (easing it of the ..."
4. Letters and Papers Illustrative of the Reigns of Richard III and Henry VII. by James Gairdner (1863)
"... yeoman of oure Crowne hath shewed unto us how that in cessing of the ...
the said x. li. is nowe by you demanded of him according to the said cessing. ..."
5. Historia Placitorum Coronae: The History of the Pleas of the Crown by Matthew Hale, Sollom Emlyn (1847)
"3. levying horse or foot upon the king's subjects against their will shall be
treason; this they call cessing of soldiers upon men, and hath been often done ..."
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