intermit

== English == === Etymology === From Latin intermittere, from inter- + mittere. === Pronunciation === (UK) IPA(key): /ɪntəˈmɪt/ (General American) IPA(key): /ɪntɚˈmɪt/ Rhymes: -ɪt === Verb === intermit (third-person singular simple present intermits, present participle intermitting, simple past and past participle intermitted) (transitive, now rare) To interrupt, to stop or cease temporarily or periodically; to suspend. 1624, John Donne, Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions, Meditation XVII., in The Works of John Donne, vol. 3, ed. Henry Alford, London: John W. Parker (1839), pp. 574-5: The bell doth toll for him, that thinks it doth; and though it intermit again, yet from that minute, that that occasion wrought upon him, he is united to God. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== intermission mission