1to desist, leave off:
(
c.1230;
MS: 1275-85
)
Lur feu n’estaint, verm ne desist
2072
(
1361
)
requiert le roi d'Engleterre que [...] le roi de France sursesse et se desporte de user juridiccion [...] et q’il veulle desistier de resceivere, oyr qerils et apeulx des ditz subgiz
12.16
(
1377
)
les prelatz [...] sont maliciousement compulsez a desister & cesser outrément es choses desusdites
ii 5 xiii
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desister (c.1230)