verb
definition
To cease to proceed or act; to stop (often with from).
example
Please desist from telephoning me on this number.
Examples of desisted in a Sentence
But he never desisted from his wars with the Marchers of South Wales, and in the early years of Henry III.
Kaikobad extended his rule as far as this city, and desisted from further conquest only on condition that the Armenian princes would enter into the same kind of relation to the Seljuks as had been imposed on the Comnenians of Trebizond.
Natasha only desisted when she had been told that there would be pineapple ice.
I have noticed that they appear to be able to smell whether or not a worm is contained in the closed hand to which they swim, for they desisted from their efforts if an empty fist was offered."
The women, after playfully pretending for some time to search for the god, desisted, saying that he had hidden himself among the Muses.
Word quickly spread and the beggars desisted in their activities.