continuate
Etymology
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Etymology
From the past participle of
continuate
- (obsolete) Continuous; uninterrupted; continued without break or interruption.
- 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC ↗:, 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.
- 1594–1597, Richard Hooker, edited by J[ohn] S[penser], Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie, […], London: […] Will[iam] Stansby [for Matthew Lownes], published 1611, →OCLC ↗, (please specify the page):
- We are of Him and in Him, even as though our very flesh and bones should be made continuate with his.
- (obsolete) Chronic; long-lasting; long-continued.
- (continuous) incessant, unbroken; see also Thesaurus:continuous
- (long-lasting) diuturnal, prolonged; see also Thesaurus:lasting
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