intermissive

comparative more intermissive · superlative most intermissive

1. Having temporary cessations; not continual; intermittent.

   Wounds I vvill lend the French, inſtead of eyes, / To vveep their intermiſſive miſeries.

   c. 1591–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Third Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]

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   I […] reduc'd Ireland, after ſo many intermiſsive VVars, to ſuch a perfect paſſe of obedience; […]

   1644, James Howell, England’s Teares, for the Present Wars, […], London: […] Richard Heron, →OCLC, page 3

   And therefore as though there vvere any feriation in nature or juſtitiums imaginable in profeſſions, vvhoſe ſubject is natural, and under no intermiſſive, but constant vvay of mutation, this ſeaſon is commonly termed the phyſician's vacation, and ſtands so received by moſt men.

   1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC

   Synonyms: patchy, spasmodic, broken, fitful, ragged, catchy, discontinuous, intermittent