ppl. a. Obs. [f. CEASE v. + -ED.] That has come to an end.

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1553.  Grimalde, Cicero’s Offices, II. (1558), 81. The stinges of ceased libertie bee sharper, than of libertie continued.

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1633.  P. Fletcher, Purple Isl., III. xv. Waste the weary Isle with never ceas’d dissension.

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