leave vb. (the usual mod. senses are freq.)
1.
to
abandon, forsake, give up Gent. V. iv. 138,
Mer.V. V. i. 196
“how unwillingly I left
the ring,”
Cor. II. iii. 180
“now you have left your
voices,”
Ham. III. iv. 91
“such . . . grained
spots As will not their
tinct.”
2.
to desist from, stop,
discontinue,=‘leave off’
Meas. IV. ii. 6
“ me your
snatches,”
Mer.V. V. i. 43
“
hollaing,”
R3 I. ii. 116
“To this keen
encounter of our wits,”
Cor. IV. i. 1
“Come your
tears,”
Lucr. 1089
“ thy
peeping”
; with infin.
Gent. II. vi. 17
“I cannot leave to
love,”
Ham. III. iv. 66.
3.
to cease, desist
2H6 III. ii. 333
“You bade me ban, and
will you bid me ?,”
Per. II. i. 47; to break
off in a narrative, reading, or conversation Shr. III. i. 26,
Ham. II. i. 51
“I was about to say
something; where did I ?,”
Cym. II. ii. 4
“Fold down the leaf
where I have left,”
Ven. 715.
4.
“left out,” excepted
Cym. II. iv. 85.
