intermissive
English
Adjective
intermissive (comparative more intermissive, superlative most intermissive)
- Having temporary cessations; not continual; intermittent.
- c. 1591–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Third Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act I, scene i]:
- Wounds I will lend the French, instead of eyes,
To weep their intermissive miseries.
- 1640, James Howell, England's Teares for the present Warres
- I […] reduc'd Ireland, after so many intermissive warres, to a perfect passe of obedience.
- 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], OCLC 152706203:
- And therefore as though there were any feriation in nature or justitiums imaginable in professions, whose subject is natural, and under no intermissive, but constant way of mutation, this season is commonly termed the physician's vacation, and stands so received by most men.
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Synonyms
- patchy, spasmodic; see also Thesaurus:discontinuous