to, whereby the party ousted or injured was driven to his real action, and could not enter. This effect of
such alienation is now obviated by statute in both England and the United States. (b) The termination
of an action in practice by the voluntary act of the plaintiff; an entry on the record that the plaintiff discontinues
his action. (c) That technical interruption of the proceedings in pleading in an action, which follows
where a defendant does not answer the whole of the plaintiff's declaration, and the plaintiff omits to take
judgment for the part unanswered. Wharton's Law Dict. Burrill.
Syn. — Cessation; intermission; discontinuation; separation; disunion; disjunction; disruption; break.
Discontinuation
(Dis`con*tin`u*a"tion) n. [Cf. F. discontinuation.] Breach or interruption of continuity; separation
of parts in a connected series; discontinuance.
Upon any discontinuation of parts, made either by bubbles or by shaking the glass, the whole mercury
falls.
Sir I. Newton. Discontinue
(Dis`con*tin"ue) v. t. [imp. & p. p. Discontinued ; p. pr. & vb. n. Discontinuing.] [Cf.
F. discontinuer.] To interrupt the continuance of; to intermit, as a practice or habit; to put an end to; to
cause to cease; to cease using, to stop; to leave off.
Set up their conventicles again, which had been discontinued.
Bp. Burnet.
I have discontinued school
Above a twelvemonth.
Shak.
Taught the Greek tongue, discontinued before in these parts the space of seven hundred years.
Daniel.
They modify and discriminate the voice, without appearing to discontinue it.
Holder. Discontinue
(Dis`con*tin"ue), v. i.
1. To lose continuity or cohesion of parts; to be disrupted or broken off. Bacon.
2. To be separated or severed; to part.
Thyself shalt discontinue from thine heritage.
Jer. xvii. 4. Discontinuee
(Dis`con*tin`u*ee") n. (Law) One whose possession of an estate is broken off, or discontinued; one
whose estate is subject to discontinuance.
Discontinuer
(Dis`con*tin"u*er) n. One who discontinues, or breaks off or away from; an absentee.
He was no gadder abroad, not discontinuer from his convent for a long time.
Fuller. Discontinuity
(Dis*con`ti*nu"i*ty) n. Want of continuity or cohesion; disunion of parts. "Discontinuity of
surface." Boyle.
Discontinuor
(Dis`con*tin"u*or) n. (Law) One who deprives another of the possession of an estate by
discontinuance. See Discontinuance, 2.
Discontinuous
(Dis`con*tin"u*ous) a.
1. Not continuous; interrupted; broken off.
A path that is zigzag, discontinuous, and intersected at every turn by human negligence.
De Quincey. 2. Exhibiting a dissolution of continuity; gaping. "Discontinuous wound." Milton.
