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Suspend :: Suspend (n.) To cause to cease for a time; to hinder from proceeding; to interrupt; to delay; to stay.

Illuminati :: Illuminati (v. t.) Members of certain associations in Modern Europe, who combined to promote social reforms, by which they expected to raise men and society to perfection, esp. of one originated in 1776 by Adam Weishaupt, professor of canon law at Ingolstadt, which spread rapidly for a time, but ceased after a few years..

Stop :: Stop (v. i.) To cease to go on; to halt, or stand still; to come to a stop..

Passage :: Passage (v. i.) Removal from life; decease; departure; death.

Devastation :: Devastation (n.) Waste of the goods of the deceased by an executor or administrator.

Forget :: Forget (v. t.) To lose the remembrance of; to let go from the memory; to cease to have in mind; not to think of; also, to lose the power of; to cease from doing..

Jointure :: "Jointure (n.) An estate settled on a wife, which she is to enjoy after husband's decease, for her own life at least, in satisfaction of dower..

Die :: Die (v. i.) To pass from an animate to a lifeless state; to cease to live; to suffer a total and irreparable loss of action of the vital functions; to become dead; to expire; to perish; -- said of animals and vegetables; often with of, by, with, from, and rarely for, before the cause or occasion of death; as, to die of disease or hardships; to die by fire or the sword; to die with horror at the thought..

Beatification :: Beatification (n.) The act of beatifying, or the state of being beatified; esp., in the R. C. Church, the act or process of ascertaining and declaring that a deceased person is one of the blessed, or has attained the second degree of sanctity, -- usually a stage in the process of canonization..

Dowager :: Dowager (n.) A widow endowed, or having a jointure; a widow who either enjoys a dower from her deceased husband, or has property of her own brought by her to her husband on marriage, and settled on her after his decease..

Cease :: Cease (v. i.) To be wanting; to fail; to pass away.

Dead :: Dead (a.) Deprived of life; -- opposed to alive and living; reduced to that state of a being in which the organs of motion and life have irrevocably ceased to perform their functions; as, a dead tree; a dead man..

Diffusion :: Diffusion (n.) The act of passing by osmosis through animal membranes, as in the distribution of poisons, gases, etc., through the body. Unlike absorption, diffusion may go on after death, that is, after the blood ceases to circulate..

Maintain :: Maintain (v. t.) To continue; not to suffer to cease or fail.

Unknow :: Unknow (v. t.) To cease to know; to lose the knowledge of.

Multiplicative :: Multiplicative (a.) Tending to multiply; having the power to multiply, or incease numbers..

Obit :: Obit (n.) A service for the soul of a deceased person on the anniversary of the day of his death.

Keen :: Keen (n.) A prolonged wail for a deceased person. Cf. Coranach.

Surcharged :: Surceaseance (n.) Cessation.

Drop :: Drop (v. i.) To come to an end; to cease; to pass out of mind; as, the affair dropped..

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