Cease And Desist. DEFINITION of 'Cease And Desist'. Cease and desist is an order given by a government administrative agency or the courts to stop any suspicious or illegal activities. Falling under the Financial Institutions Regulatory and Interest Rate Control Act of 1978, a cease and desist order places an injunction on a company or person, prohibiting the activities that are deemed suspect.
Rosey Grier is 83 years old. To be more precise (and nerdy), the current age as of right now is 30299 days or (even more geeky) 727176 hours. That's a lot of hours!
So, what does Ring Around the Rosie mean, then? Folklorist Philip Hiscock suggests: The more likely explanation is to be found in the religious ban on dancing among many Protestants in the nineteenth century, in Britain as well as here in North America.