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English
Adjective
intermissive (comparative more intermissive, superlative most intermissive)
- Having temporary cessations; not continual; intermittent.
- Synonyms: patchy, spasmodic; see also Thesaurus:discontinuous
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 Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :Wounds I vvill lend the French, inſtead of eyes, / To vveep their intermiſſive miſeries.
1644, James Howell, England’s Teares, for the Present Wars, , London: Richard Heron, →OCLC, page 3:I reduc'd Ireland, after ſo many intermiſsive VVars, to ſuch a perfect paſſe of obedience;
1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: Together with Some Marginall Observations, and a Table Alphabeticall at the End.">…], 2nd edition, London: A Miller, for Edw Dod and Nath Ekins, , →OCLC:And therefore as though there vvere any feriation in nature or juſtitiums imaginable in profeſſions, vvhoſe ſubject is natural, and under no intermiſſive, but constant vvay of mutation, this ſeaſon is commonly termed the phyſician's vacation, and ſtands so received by moſt men.
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