intermitted, ppl. a.
(ɪntəˈmɪtɪd)
[f. intermit v.1 + -ed1.]
Broken off or stopped for a time; interrupted.
| a 1542 Wyatt Death C'tess Pembroke Poems (1810) 421/2 Yet once againe, my Muse, I pardon pray, Thine intermitted song if I repeate. 1615 G. Sandys Trav. 242 ætna..yet smoking..and vomiting intermitted flames. 1713 Young Last Day ii. 13 Again the trumpets intermitted sound Rolls the wide circuit of creation round. 1873 Mrs. Whitney Other Girls xiv. 187 The heavy bell swung out slow, intermitted peals. |
Hence interˈmittedly adv., in an intermitted, broken, or interrupted manner.
| 1829 Scott Demonol. i. 42 The cry of a distant pack of hounds, sounding intermittedly. 1846 Dana Zooph. (1848) 509 Polyps intermittedly coralligenous at base. |