Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Discontinue

Discontinue , transitive verb

[Compare French 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. — Shakespeare
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

Discontinue , intransitive verb

1.
To lose continuity or cohesion of parts; to be disrupted or broken off. — Bacon
2.
To be separated or severed; to part.
Thyself shalt discontinue from thine heritage. — Jer. xvii. 4