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Definition: CESSING

Part of Speech Definition
Verb 1. Present participle conjugation of the verb cess.[Eve - graph theoretic]
Verb Base
(cess)
1. To rate; to tax; to assess.[Websters].
2. To cease; to neglect.[Websters].
3. Base verb from the following inflections: cessing, cessed, cesses, cesser, cessers, cessingly and cessedly.[Eve - graph theoretic]

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"Cessing" is a common misspelling or typo for: ceasing, cressing, chessing.

Date "Cessing" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1914. (references)

Definition: CESSING

Part of SpeechDefinition
Verb1. Present participle conjugation of the verb cess.[Eve - graph theoretic]
Verb Base
(cess)
1. To rate; to tax; to assess.[Websters].
2. To cease; to neglect.[Websters].
3. Base verb from the following inflections: cessing, cessed, cesses, cesser, cessers, cessingly and cessedly.[Eve - graph theoretic]

Sources: compiled from various sources, (under license) copyright 2008.

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"CESSING" is a common misspelling or typo for: ceasing, cressing, chessing.

Date "CESSING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1914. (references)

Specialty Definition: cess

DomainDefinition
Literature1: "Poor jade, is wrung in the withers out of all cess."- Shakespeare: 1 Henry IV., ii. 1.
2: Cess Measure, as ex-cess, excess-ive. Out of all cess means excessively, i.e. ex (out of all) cess.
3: Cess. A tax, contracted from assessment ("sess"); as a "church-cess." In Ireland the word is used sometimes as a contraction of success, meaning luck, as "bad cess to you!" Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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Common Expressions: cess

ExpressionsDefinition
Air CessAir Cess is a cargo airline based in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. It operates charter cargo services. (references)
Out of cessBeyond measure, excessively. --Shak. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary.

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Topics by Level of Interest: cess

Topics sorted by level of InterestLevel (1=low, 600=high)   Topics sorted AlphabeticallyLevel (1=low, 600=high)
Cess Rock9   Air Cess5
River Cess County8   Cess4
Grand Cess5   Cess Rock9
Air Cess5   Cess slide3
River Cess5   Grand Cess5
Cess4   River Cess5
Cess slide3   River Cess County8

Source: the editor, created by/for EVE to gauge likely levels of human interest in linguistically triggered topics (compiled across various sources, such as Wikipedia and specialty expression glosses).