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.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)