What is "cessant"

Usage examples of "cessant".

This Mica Indevar was a stoop-shouldered cessant whose round face and smooth, hairless head gave little hint of his age, though his husky voice led me to suspect he was pushing ninety years.

Too, he preaches celibacy, so that he has become an icon of the cessant cults.

It came to me that I might find Jolly, and that I might take him back to Kavasphir only to find that our home, Temple Huacho, had been lost: fallen to ruins at the hands of some cessant cult, or washed away by the silver, and all that we loved in this world gone.

We are a colony of old cessants, though my companions went off to Tibbett a few days past.

I ran to report this strange incident, and some among the cessants were very excited.

The cessants questioned him on many subjects, and the range, the depth of his knowledge, it astounded me, even then when I was twelve.

He had threatened to throw me into the silver, but after that night he was afraid I would jump, so he brought some of his cessants to watch over me.

Posses have gathered to attack his cessants, and he has never seen them.