ppl. a. Obs. [f. CEASE v. + -ED.] That has come to an end.
1553. Grimalde, Cicero’s Offices, II. (1558), 81. The stinges of ceased libertie bee sharper, than of libertie continued.
1633. P. Fletcher, Purple Isl., III. xv. Waste the weary Isle with never ceas’d dissension.
