a. Obs. Also 6 vnceassa(u)nt, -cessaunt. [UN-1 7 and 5 b.] = INCESSANT a. (Very common c. 1550–1690.)
α. 1548. Udall, Erasm. Par. Luke xxiv. 178 b. Hauyng within hymself a perpetuall vnceassaunt power to dooe whatsoeuer his wille is.
1592. Kyd, Murther I. Brewen, Wks. (1901), 293. Bloud is an vnceassant crier in the eares of the Lord.
β. 1555. Eden, Decades (Arb.), 161. The vncessaunt mouynge and impulsion of the heauens.
1583. Babington, Commandm. (1590), 190. Parents, that take such intollerable and vncessant paines to leaue much vnto their children.
a. 1641. Bp. Mountagu, Acts & Mon. (1642), 429. Wicked mens soules they thrust and imprison in a darksome roome below, where torments uncessant doe attend them.
a. 1661. Holyday, Juvenal (1673), 263. They … bid their sons with uncessant industry imploy their time.
1692. Ray, Creation, II. 47. The Heart … by its uncessant Motion distributing the Blood.
