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To desist is to stop doing something, and to stay stopped. It is a formal verb. You hear it most in law: a cease and desist letter tells a person or a company to stop, now, or face trouble. Teachers and parents almost never say desist to a child; they say stop. Though actually, desist already means stop — cease and desist doubles the idea for legal weight, the way official English likes to. You desist from an action: desist from calling, desist from using a name. It does not mean to fight the action (that is resist) or to say firmly that you are right (that is insist).
停止、中止（法律信件裡的 cease and desist，台灣常說「停止並禁止侵害」這類）
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
desistverb/dɪˈsɪst/
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formalTo cease to proceed or act; to stop (often with from).
- Please desist from telephoning me at this number.
- One Ear was uttering quick, eager whines, lunging at the length of his stick toward the darkness, and desisting now and again in order to make frantic attacks on the stick with his teeth.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。