INTERMIT', verb transitive [Latin intermitto; inter and mitto, to send.]

To cause to cease for a time; to interrupt; to suspend.

Pray to the gods, to intermit the plague

That needs must light on this ingratitude.

INTERMIT', verb intransitive To cease for a time; to go off at intervals; as a fever. A tertian fever intermits every other day. The pulse sometimes intermits for a second of time.