(transitive) To give up; yield to another. / (intransitive) To give way.

(formal, intransitive) To stop. / (formal, transitive) To stop doing (something). / (obsolete, intransitive) To be wanting; to fail; to pass away, perish.

(obsolete) Cessation; extinction (see without cease).

(obsolete) Not married. / (by extension) Abstaining from sexual relations and pleasures.

One who is not married, especially one who has taken a religious vow not to get married, usually because of being a member of a religious community. / (obsolete) A celibate state; celibacy.

(rare) To practice celibacy

Related to a metric temperature scale, originally defined as having the freezing point of water as 0 degrees and its boiling point as 100 degrees, at standard atmospheric pressure. The standardized definition has 0.01 °C as the triple point of water, and a difference in temperature of 1 °C corresponds to ¹⁄_(273.16) of the difference in temperature between the triple point and the absolute zero.

(cytology) A cell that produces something, such as a fibroblast or osteoblast. / An undifferentiated or immature cell.

A new or recent member of a Greek monastic religious order; a caloyer. / A monk who lives in a religious community, rather than in solitude.

(obsolete) A rite or ceremony. / (uncountable) Fame, renown; the state of being famous or talked-about.