intermit

Etymology

From Latin intermittere, from inter- + mittere.

verb

1. (transitive, now rare) To interrupt, to stop or cease temporarily or periodically; to suspend.
   The bell doth toll for him, that thinks it doth; and though it intermit again, yet from that minute, that that occasion wrought upon him, he is united to God. 1624, John Donne, Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions, Meditation XVII., in The Works of John Donne, vol. 3, ed. Henry Alford, London: John W. Parker (1839), pp. 574-5