Emily Dickinson Lexicon

CEASE, v.i. [Fr. cesser; Sp. cesar; Port. cessar; It. cessare; L. cesso.]

1. To stop moving, acting or speaking; to leave off; to give over; followed by from before a noun. It is an honor for a man to cease from strife. – Prov. xx.
2. To fail; to be wanting. The poor shall never cease out of the land. – Deut. xv.
3. To stop; to be at an end; as, the wonder ceases; the storm has ceased.
4. To be forgotten. I would make the remembrance of them to cease. – Deut. xxxii.
5. To abstain; as, cease from anger. – Ps. xxxvii. To cease from labor, is to rest; to cease from strife, is to be quiet; but in such phrases the sense of cease is not varied.