To interrupt; to cause to cease for a time; to stay, delay, or hinder; to discontinue temporarily, but with an ex-, pectation or purpose of resumption.' To for-bid a public officer, attorney, or ecclesiastical person from performing his duties or exercising his functions for a more or less definite interval of time. See Insurance Co. v. Aiken,1 82 Va. 428; Stack v. o’Hara, 08 Pa. 232; Reeside v. U. S., 8 wall. 42, 19 L. Ed. 318 : williston v. Camp, 9 Mont 88, 22 Pac. 501; Dyer v. Dyer, 17 R. I. 547, 23 AtL 910; State v. Melvin, 166 Mo. 565, 66 S. W. 534; Poe ▼. State, 72 Tex. 625,10 S. W. 732. See Sus-PEJiSioN. . .
Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)
