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Webster 1913 Edition


Continuate

Con-tin′u-ate

,
Adj.
[L.
continuatus
, p. p. See
Continue
.]
1.
Immediately united together; intimately connected.
[R.]
We are of Him and in Him, even as though our very flesh and bones should be made
continuate
with his.
Hooker.
2.
Uninterrupted; unbroken; continual; continued.
An untirable and
continuate
goodness.
Shakespeare

Webster 1828 Edition


Continuate

CONTINUATE

,
Verb.
T.
To join closely together.

CONTINUATE

,
Adj.
[L.]
1.
Immediately united; holding together. [Little used.]
2.
Uninterrupted; unbroken. [Little used.]

Definition 2024


continuate

continuate

English

Adjective

continuate (comparative more continuate, superlative most continuate)

  1. (obsolete) Continuous; uninterrupted; continued without break or interruption.
    • 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, I.iii.1.2:
      Childish in some, terrible in others; to be derided in one, pitied or admired in another; to him by fits, to a second continuate: and howsoever these symptoms be common and incident to all persons, yet they are the most remarkable, frequent, furious, and violent in melancholy men.
    • Shakespeare
      An untirable and continuate goodness.
    • Hooker
      We are of Him and in Him, even as though our very flesh and bones should be made continuate with his.
  2. (obsolete) Chronic; long-lasting; long-continued.

References


Italian

Verb

continuate

  1. second-person plural present indicative of continuare
  2. second-person plural imperative of continuare
  3. feminine plural of continuato

Latin

Verb

continuāte

  1. second-person plural present active imperative of continuō