Also 4 ses, 5 ceasse. [a. OF. ces, f. cesser: see prec.] = CEASING, CESSATION. Obs. exc. in the still occasional Without cease, without end, incessantly. (Cf. F. sans cesse.)
c. 1330. Arth. & Merl., 3188. Of swiche bataile nas no ses To the night fram arnemorwe.
1490. Caxton, Eneydos, xvi. 64. The other he made to watche without ceasse.
1583. Stubbes, Anat. Abus., II. 57. They brought the world into a woonderfull perplexitie and cease.
1602. Shaks., Ham., III. iii. 15. The cease of Maiestie dies not alone.
1662. R. Mathew, Unl. Alch., § 99. 163. Which instantly hath caused cease of pain.
1798. Log Vanguard, 2 Aug., in Nicolas, Disp. Nelson (1845), III. 54. 55 minutes past 2, a total cease of firing.
1877. E. R. Conder, Bas. Faith, ii. 65. We cannot but think of space as boundless, unlimited, extending without cease in all directions.
1880. A. Mitchell, Past in Present, 183. It is also, without cease and everywhere, undergoing change.
