different between desist vs absist

English

Etymology

From Middle French desister.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d??s?st/, /d??z?st/
• Rhymes: -?st

Verb

desist (third-person singular simple present desists, present participle desisting, simple past and past participle desisted)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To cease to proceed or act; to stop (often with from).
   • 1921, Annual Report of the Federal Trade Commission, page 173:

     After hearing[,] an order was entered requiring respondent to cease and desist the practice complained of under section 5 of the Federal Trade Commission act.

   • 2005, Gerry Shishin Wick, The Book of Equanimity: Illuminating Classic Zen Koans, Simon and Schuster (?ISBN), page 307:

     Desist the kind of thinking that gets you into trouble. Thinking is in itself fine, but grabbing onto thoughts and images of your self will bring you suffering. Once you learn how to desist, how to let go of your ego-grasping mind, then cease thinking ...

Derived terms

Related terms

• cease and desist

Translations

Anagrams

• Deists, deists, deïsts, sisted

English

Etymology

Latin absistere, present active infinitive of absist? (“desist”); from ab (“from, away from”) + sist? (“stand”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?b?s?st/, /æb?s?st/
• Rhymes: -?st

Verb

absist (third-person singular simple present absists, present participle absisting, simple past and past participle absisted)

1. (obsolete) To stand apart from; to leave off; to desist.
   • 1603-16, Walter Raleigh, The History of the World.

     They promise to absist from their purpose of making a war.

Anagrams

• Staibs, absits