pausen.[F., fr. L. pausa. See Pose.]1. A temporary stop or rest; an intermission of action; interruption; suspension; cessation.()2. Temporary inaction or waiting; hesitation; suspence; doubt.()I stand in pause where I shall first begin. (Shak.)3. In speaking or reading aloud, a brief arrest or suspension of voice, to indicate the limits and relations of sentences and their parts.()4. In writing and printing, a mark indicating the place and nature of an arrest of voice in reading; a punctuation point; as, teach the pupil to mind the pauses.()5. A break or paragraph in writing.()He writes with warmth, which usually neglects method, and those partitions and pauses which men educated in schools observe. (Locke.)6. (Mus.) A hold. See 4th Hold, 7.()()v. i.[Cf. F. pauser, L. pausare. See Pause, n., Pose.]1. To make a short stop; to cease for a time; to intermit speaking or acting; to stop; to wait; to rest.(Shak.)Pausing a while, thus to herself she mused. (Milton.)2. To be intermitted; to cease; as, the music pauses.()3. To hesitate; to hold back; to delay.([R.])Why doth the Jew pause? Take thy forfeiture. (Shak.)4. To stop in order to consider; hence, to consider; to reflect.(Shak.)To pause upon, to deliberate concerning. Shak.()()v. t. To cause to stop or rest; -- used reflexively.(Shak.)