Ceased vs Cessed - What's the difference?
ceased | cessed |
(cease)
(formal) To stop.
(formal) To stop doing (something).
(obsolete) To be wanting; to fail; to pass away.
* Bible, Deuteronomy xv. 11
(cess)
(British, Ireland) An assessed tax.
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(British, Ireland, informal) Luck
(obsolete) Bound; measure.
* Shakespeare
(British, Ireland) To levy a .
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(rail transport) The area along either side of a railroad track which is kept at a lower level than the sleeper bottom, in order to provide drainage.
As verbs the difference between ceased and cessed
is that ceased is past tense of cease while cessed is past tense of cess.ceased
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(head)cease
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Verb
(ceas)- And with that, his twitching ceased .
- And with that, he ceased twitching.
- The poor shall never cease out of the land.
cessed
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(head)cess
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(wikipedia cess)Alternative forms
* CessEtymology 1
Shortened form of assess, spelled by analogy with census and other Latinate words.Noun
(es)- The poor jade is wrung in the withers out of all cess .