Emily Dickinson Lexicon

IN-TER-MIS'SION, n. [Fr. from L. intermissio. See Intermit.]

1. Cessation for a time; pause; intermediate stop; as, to labor without intermission; service or business will begin after an intermission of one hour.
2. Intervenient time. Shak.
3. The temporary cessation or subsidence of a fever; the spare of time between the paroxysms of a disease. Intermission is an entire cessation, as distinguished from remission or abatement of fever.
4. The state of being neglected; disuse; as of words. [Little used.] B. Jonson.