Part 2353

<h1>Continually</h1> <Xpage=313>

<hw>Con*tin"u*al*ly</hw>, <tt>adv.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Without cessation; unceasingly; continuously; <as>as, the current flows <ex>continually</ex></as>.</def>

<blockquote>Why do not all animals <b>continually</b> increase in bigness? <i>Bentley.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>In regular or repeated succession; very often.</def>

<blockquote>Thou shalt eat bread at my table <b>continually</b>. <i>2 Sam. ix. 7.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Continuance</h1> <Xpage=313>

<hw>Con*tin"u*ance</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[OF. <ets>continuance</ets>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>A holding on, or remaining in a particular state; permanence, as of condition, habits, abode, etc.; perseverance; constancy; duration; stay.</def>

<blockquote>Great plagues, and of long <b>continuence</b>. <i>Deut. xxviii. 59.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>Patient <b>continuance</b> i well-doing. <i>Rom. ii. 7.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Uninterrupted succession; continuation; constant renewell; perpetuation; propagation.</def>

<blockquote>The brute immedistely regards his own preservation or the <b>continuance</b> of his species. <i>Addison.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>A holding together; continuity.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Bacon.</i>

<p><b>4.</b> <fld>(Law)</fld> <sd>(a)</sd> <def>The adjournment of the proceedings in a cause from one day, or from one stated term of a court, to another.</def> <sd>(b)</sd> <def>The entry of such adjuornment and the grounds thereof on the record.</def>

<h1>Continuant</h1> <Xpage=313>

<hw>Con*tin"u*ant</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Continuing; prolonged; sustained; <as>as, a <ex>continuant</ex> sound</as>.</def> -- <def2><tt>n.</tt> <def>A continuant sound; a letter whose sound may be prolonged.</def></def2>

<h1>Continuate</h1> <Xpage=313>

<hw>Con*tin"u*ate</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>continuatus</ets>, p.p. See <er>Continue</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Immediately united together; intimately connocted.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<blockquote>We are of Him and in Him, even as though our very flesh and bones should be made <b>continuate</b> with his. <i>Hooker.</i></blockquote>

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<p><b>2.</b> <def>Uninterrupted; unbroken; continual; continued.</def>

<blockquote>An untirable and <b>continuate</b> goodness. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Continuation</h1> <Xpage=314>

<hw>Con*tin`u*a"tion</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>continuatio</ets>: cf. F. <ets>connuation</ets>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>That act or state of continuing; the state of being continued; uninterrupted extension or succession; prolongation; propagation.</def>

<blockquote>Preventing the <b>continuation</b> of the royal line. <i>Macaulay.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>That which extends, increases, supplements, or carries on; <as>as, the <ex>continuation</ex> of a story</as>.</def>

<blockquote>My <b>continuation</b> of the version of Statius. <i>Pope.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Continuative</h1> <Xpage=314>