discontinuev. t.[Cf. F. discontinuer.] 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.()Set up their conventicles again, which had been discontinued. (Bp. Burnet.)I have discontinued school
Above a twelvemonth. (Shak.)Taught the Greek tongue, discontinued before in these parts the space of seven hundred years. (Daniel.)They modify and discriminate the voice, without appearing to discontinue it. (Holder.)v. i.1. To lose continuity or cohesion of parts; to be disrupted or broken off.(Bacon.)2. To be separated or severed; to part.()Thyself shalt discontinue from thine heritage. (Jer. xvii. 4.)