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Cease

To come to an end to stop to leave off or give over to desist as the noise ceased

Expostulate

his conduct representing the wrong he has done or intends and urging him to make redress or to desist to remonstrate followed by with

Abolition

aboleo, Lat.], a destroying; also the leave given by the sovereign or judges to a criminal accuser to desist from further prosecution, 25 Hen. 8, c. 21. Abolition means, 'to destroy, extinguish, abrogate or annihilate', Gurdit Singh

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Leave

a verb as 'to depart from, quit relinquish, to go away from permanently, to abandon, forsake, to cease, desist from, stop'. In the Random House Dictionary of the English Language at p. 816 the word 'leave' has

Supersedeas

Supersedeas, [Lat. 'you shall desist'] a writ that lay in a gret many cases; and signified in general a command, on good cause

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