Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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.