continuate
English
Etymology
From the past participle of Latin continuare.
Adjective
continuate (comparative more continuate, superlative most continuate)
- (obsolete) Continuous; uninterrupted; continued without break or interruption.
- 1621, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy, Oxford: Printed by Iohn Lichfield and Iames Short, for Henry Cripps, OCLC 216894069; The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd corrected and augmented edition, Oxford: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, 1624, OCLC 54573970:, 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.
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- (obsolete) Chronic; long-lasting; long-continued.
References
- “continuate” in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989, →ISBN.
- Webster's Third International Dictionary (1961)
Italian
Verb
continuate
- second-person plural present indicative of continuare
- second-person plural imperative of continuare
- feminine plural of continuato
Latin
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