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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 ]

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 ]

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