a. Capable of being continued [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ OE. continuel, F. continuel. See Continue. ] 1. Proceeding without interruption or cesstaion; continuous; unceasing; lasting; abiding. [ 1913 Webster ]

He that is of a merry heart hath a continual feast. Prov. xv. 15. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Occuring in steady and rapid succession; very frequent; often repeated. [ 1913 Webster ]

The eye is deligh by a continental succession of small landscapes. W. Irwing. [ 1913 Webster ]

Continual proportionals (Math.), quantities in continued proportion. Brande & C.

Syn. -- Constant; prepetual; incessant; unceasing; uninterrupted; unintermitted; continuous. See Constant, and Continuous. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. 1. Without cessation; unceasingly; continuously; as, the current flows continually. [ 1913 Webster ]

Why do not all animals continually increase in bigness? Bentley. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. In regular or repeated succession; very often. [ 1913 Webster ]

Thou shalt eat bread at my table continually. 2 Sam. ix. 7. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. continuance. ] 1. A holding on, or remaining in a particular state; permanence, as of condition, habits, abode, etc.; perseverance; constancy; duration; stay. [ 1913 Webster ]

Great plagues, and of long continuance. Deut. xxviii. 59. [ 1913 Webster ]

Patient continuance in well-doing. Rom. ii. 7. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Uninterrupted succession; continuation; constant renewal; perpetuation; propagation. [ 1913 Webster ]

The brute immediately regards his own preservation or the continuance of his species. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A holding together; continuity. [ Obs. ] Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Law) (a) The adjournment of the proceedings in a cause from one day, or from one stated term of a court, to another. (b) The entry of such adjournment and the grounds thereof on the record. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Continuing; prolonged; sustained; as, a continuant sound. -- n. A continuant sound; a letter whose sound may be prolonged. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. continuatus, p. p. See Continue. ] 1. Immediately united together; intimately connected. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

We are of Him and in Him, even as though our very flesh and bones should be made continuate with his. Hooker. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Uninterrupted; unbroken; continual; continued. [ 1913 Webster ]

An untirable and continuate goodness. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. continuatio: cf. F. connuation. ] 1. That act or state of continuing; the state of being continued; uninterrupted extension or succession; prolongation; propagation. [ 1913 Webster ]

Preventing the continuation of the royal line. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That which extends, increases, supplements, or carries on; as, the continuation of a story. [ 1913 Webster ]

My continuation of the version of Statius. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. continuatif. ] 1. (Logic) A term or expression denoting continuance. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

To these may be added continuatives; as, Rome remains to this day; which includes, at least, two propositions, viz., Rome was, and Rome is. I. Watts. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Gram.) A word that continues the connection of sentences or subjects; a connective; a conjunction. [ 1913 Webster ]

Continuatives . . . consolidate sentences into one continuous whole. Harris. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. continuateur. ] One who, or that which, continues; esp., one who continues a series or a work; a continuer. Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Continued p. pr. & vb. n. Continuing. ] [ F. continuer, L. continuare, -tinuatum, to connect, continue, fr. continuus. See Continuous, and cf. Continuate. ] 1. To remain in a given place or condition; to remain in connection with; to abide; to stay. [ 1913 Webster ]

Here to continue, and build up here
A growing empire. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

They continue with me now three days, and have nothing to eat. Matt. xv. 32. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To be permanent or durable; to endure; to last. [ 1913 Webster ]

But now thy kingdom shall not continue. 1 Sam. xiii. 14. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To be steadfast or constant in any course; to persevere; to abide; to endure; to persist; to keep up or maintain a particular condition, course, or series of actions; as, the army continued to advance. [ 1913 Webster ]

If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed. John viii. 31.

Syn. -- To persevere; persist. See Persevere. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. 1. To unite; to connect. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

the use of the navel is to continue the infant unto the mother. Sir T. browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To protract or extend in duration; to preserve or persist in; to cease not. [ 1913 Webster ]

O continue thy loving kindness unto them that know thee. Ps. xxxvi. 10. [ 1913 Webster ]

You know how to make yourself happy by only continuing such a life as you have been long accustomed to lead. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To carry onward or extend; to prolong or produce; to add to or draw out in length. [ 1913 Webster ]

A bridge of wond'rous length,
From hell continued, reaching th' utmost orb
of this frail world. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To retain; to suffer or cause to remain; as, the trustees were continued; also, to suffer to live. [ 1913 Webster ]

And how shall we continue Claudio. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

p. p. & a. Having extension of time, space, order of events, exertion of energy, etc.; extended; protracted; uninterrupted; also, resumed after interruption; extending through a succession of issues, session, etc.; as, a continued story. “Continued woe.” Jenyns. “Continued succession.” Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

Continued bass (Mus.), a bass continued through an entire piece of music, while the other parts of the harmony are indicated by figures beneath the bass; the same as thorough bass or figured bass; basso continuo. [ It. ] --
Continued fever (Med.), a fever which presents no interruption in its course. --
Continued fraction (Math.), a fraction whose numerator is 1, and whose denominator is a whole number plus a fraction whose numerator is 1 and whose denominator is a whole number, plus a fraction, and so on. --
Continued proportion (Math.), a proportion composed of two or more equal ratios, in which the consequent of each preceding ratio is the same with the antecedent of the following one; as, 4 : 8 : 8 : 16 :: 16 : 32. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Continuously. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who continues; one who has the power of perseverance or persistence. “Indulgent continuers in sin.” Hammond. [ 1913 Webster ]

I would my horse had the speed of your tongue, and so good a continuer. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Continuities /plu>. [ L. continuitas: cf. F. continuité. See Continuous. ] the state of being continuous; uninterrupted connection or succession; close union of parts; cohesion; as, the continuity of fibers. Grew. [ 1913 Webster ]

The sight would be tired, if it were attracted by a continuity of glittering objects. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

Law of continuity (Math. & Physics), the principle that nothing passes from one state to another without passing through all the intermediate states. --
Solution of continuity. (Math.) See under Solution. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ It. ] (Mus.) Basso continuo, or continued bass. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. continuus, fr. continere to hold together. See Continent. ] 1. Without break, cessation, or interruption; without intervening space or time; uninterrupted; unbroken; continual; unceasing; constant; continued; protracted; extended; as, a continuous line of railroad; a continuous current of electricity. [ 1913 Webster ]

he can hear its continuous murmur. Longfellow. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Bot.) Not deviating or varying from uninformity; not interrupted; not joined or articulated. [ 1913 Webster ]

Continuous brake (Railroad), a brake which is attached to each car a train, and can be caused to operate in all the cars simultaneously from a point on any car or on the engine. --
Continuous impost. See Impost.

Syn. -- Continuous, Continual. Continuous is the stronger word, and denotes that the continuity or union of parts is absolute and uninterrupted; as, a continuous sheet of ice; a continuous flow of water or of argument. So Daniel Webster speaks of “a continuous and unbroken strain of the martial airs of England.” Continual, in most cases, marks a close and unbroken succession of things, rather than absolute continuity. Thus we speak of continual showers, implying a repetition with occasional interruptions; we speak of a person as liable to continual calls, or as subject to continual applications for aid, etc. See Constant. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a continuous maner; without interruption. -- Con*tin"u*ous*ness, n. [1913 Webster]

a. Admitting of being discontinued. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The act of discontinuing, or the state of being discontinued; want of continued connection or continuity; breaking off; cessation; interruption; as, a discontinuance of conversation or intercourse; discontinuance of a highway or of travel. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Law) (a) A breaking off or interruption of an estate, which happened when an alienation was made by a tenant in tail, or other tenant, seized in right of another, of a larger estate than the tenant was entitled to, whereby the party ousted or injured was driven to his real action, and could not enter. This effect of such alienation is now obviated by statute in both England and the United States. (b) The termination of an action in practice by the voluntary act of the plaintiff; an entry on the record that the plaintiff discontinues his action. (c) That technical interruption of the proceedings in pleading in an action, which follows where a defendant does not answer the whole of the plaintiff's declaration, and the plaintiff omits to take judgment for the part unanswered. Wharton's Law Dict. Burrill.

Syn. -- Cessation; intermission; discontinuation; separation; disunion; disjunction; disruption; break. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. discontinuation. ] Breach or interruption of continuity; separation of parts in a connected series; discontinuance. [ 1913 Webster ]

Upon any discontinuation of parts, made either by bubbles or by shaking the glass, the whole mercury falls. Sir I. Newton. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Discontinued p. pr. & vb. n. Discontinuing. ] [ Cf. F. discontinuer. ] To interrupt the continuance of; to intermit, as a practice or habit; to put an end to; to cause to cease; to cease using, to stop; to leave off. [ 1913 Webster ]

Set up their conventicles again, which had been discontinued. Bp. Burnet. [ 1913 Webster ]

I have discontinued school
Above a twelvemonth. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Taught the Greek tongue, discontinued before in these parts the space of seven hundred years. Daniel. [ 1913 Webster ]

They modify and discriminate the voice, without appearing to discontinue it. Holder. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. 1. To lose continuity or cohesion of parts; to be disrupted or broken off. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To be separated or severed; to part. [ 1913 Webster ]

Thyself shalt discontinue from thine heritage. Jer. xvii. 4. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Law) One whose possession of an estate is broken off, or discontinued; one whose estate is subject to discontinuance. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who discontinues, or breaks off or away from; an absentee. [ 1913 Webster ]

He was no gadder abroad, not discontinuer from his convent for a long time. Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Want of continuity or cohesion; disunion of parts. “Discontinuity of surface.” Boyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Law) One who deprives another of the possession of an estate by discontinuance. See Discontinuance, 2. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Not continuous; interrupted; broken off. [ 1913 Webster ]

A path that is zigzag, discontinuous, and intersected at every turn by human negligence. De Quincey. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Exhibiting a dissolution of continuity; gaping. “Discontinuous wound.” Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

Discontinuous function (Math.), a function which for certain values or between certain values of the variable does not vary continuously as the variable increases. The discontinuity may, for example, consist of an abrupt change in the value of the function, or an abrupt change in its law of variation, or the function may become imaginary. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Law) Discontinuance; also, continuance by undue process. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Geol.) same as 2nd Moho. [ PJC ]

n. The act or state of recontinuing. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. & i. To continue anew. [ 1913 Webster ]