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- English Word Discontinuance Definition 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.
- English Word Discontinuance Definition A breaking off or interruption of an estate, which happened when an alienation was made by a tenant in tail, or other tenant, seized in right of another, of a larger estate than the tenant was entitled to, whereby the party ousted or injured was driven to his real action, and could not enter. This effect of such alienation is now obviated by statute in both England and the United States.
- English Word Discontinuance Definition The termination of an action in practice by the voluntary act of the plaintiff; an entry on the record that the plaintiff discontinues his action.
- English Word Discontinuance Definition That technical interruption of the proceedings in pleading in an action, which follows where a defendant does not answer the whole of the plaintiff's declaration, and the plaintiff omits to take judgment for the part unanswered.
- English Word Discontinuation Definition Breach or interruption of continuity; separation of parts in a connected series; discontinuance.
- English Word Discontinue Definition To interrupt the continuance of; to intermit, as a practice or habit; to put an end to; to cause to cease; to cease using, to stop; to leave off.
- English Word Discontinue Definition To lose continuity or cohesion of parts; to be disrupted or broken off.
- English Word Discontinue Definition To be separated or severed; to part.
- English Word Discontinued Definition of Discontinue
- English Word Discontinuee Definition One whose possession of an estate is broken off, or discontinued; one whose estate is subject to discontinuance.
- English Word Discontinuer Definition One who discontinues, or breaks off or away from; an absentee.
- English Word Discontinuing Definition of Discontinue
- English Word Discontinuity Definition Want of continuity or cohesion; disunion of parts.
- English Word Discontinuor Definition One who deprives another of the possession of an estate by discontinuance. See Discontinuance, 2.
- English Word Discontinuous Definition Not continuous; interrupted; broken off.
- English Word Discontinuous Definition Exhibiting a dissolution of continuity; gaping.
- English Word Disconvenience Definition Unsuitableness; incongruity.
- English Word Disconvenient Definition Not convenient or congruous; unsuitable; ill-adapted.
- English Word Discophora Definition A division of acalephs or jellyfishes, including most of the large disklike species.
- English Word Discord Definition Want of concord or agreement; absence 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.
- English Word Discord Definition Union of musical sounds which strikes the ear harshly or disagreeably, owing to the incommensurability of the vibrations which they produce; want of musical concord or harmony; a chord demanding resolution into a concord.
- English Word Discord Definition To disagree; to be discordant; to jar; to clash; not to suit.
- English Word Discordable Definition That may produce discord; disagreeing; discordant.
- English Word Discordance Definition Alt. of Discordancy
- English Word Discordancy Definition State or quality of being discordant; disagreement; inconsistency.
- English Word Discordant Definition Disagreeing; incongruous; being at variance; clashing; opposing; not harmonious.
- English Word Discordant Definition Dissonant; not in harmony or musical concord; harsh; jarring; as, discordant notes or sounds.
- English Word Discordant Definition Said of strata which lack conformity in direction of bedding, either as in unconformability, or as caused by a fault.
- English Word Discordful Definition Full of discord; contentious.
- English Word Discordous Definition Full of discord.