intermit

INTERMIT', v.t. [L. intermitto; inter and mitto, to send.]

To cause to cease for a time; to interrupt; to suspend.

Pray to the gods, to intermit the plague

That needs must light on this ingratitude.

INTERMIT', v.i. To cease for a time; to go off at intervals; as a fever. A tertian fever intermits every other day. The pulse sometimes intermits for a second of time.