Emily Dickinson Lexicon

CON-TIN'U-ATE, a. [L. continuatus.]

1. Immediately united; holding together. [Little used.] – Hooker.
2. Uninterrupted; unbroken. [Little used.] – Peacham.

CON-TIN'U-ATE, v.t.

To join closely together. – Potter.

CON-TIN'U-A-TED, pp.

Closely joined.

CON-TIN'U-ATE-LY, adv.

With continuity; without interruption. [Little used.] – Wilkins.

CON-TIN'U-A-TING, ppr.

Closely uniting.

CON-TIN-U-A'TION, n. [L. continuatio.]

1. Extension of existence in a series or line; succession uninterrupted. These things must be works of Providence, for the continuation of the species. – Ray.
2. Extension or carrying on to a further point; as, the continuation of a story.
3. Extension in space; production; a carrying on in length; as, the continuation of a line in surveying.

CON-TIN'U-A-TIVE, n.

1. An expression noting permanence or duration. To these may be added continuatives; as, Rome remains to this day; which includes at least two propositions, viz. Rome was, and Rome is. – Watts.
2. In grammar, a word that continues. – Harris.

CON-TIN-U-A'TOR, n.

One who continues or keeps up a series or succession.

CON-TIN'UE, v.i. [Fr. continuer; L continuo; con and teneo, to hold; It. continuare; Sp. continuar. See Tenet.]

1. To remain in a state, or place; to abide for any time indefinitely. The multitude continue with me now three days and have nothing to eat. – Matth. xv.
2. To last; to be durable; to endure; to be permanent. Thy kingdom shall not continue. – 1 Sam. xiii.
3. To persevere; to be steadfast or constant in any course. If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed. – John viii.

CON-TIN'UE, v.t.

1. To protract; not to cease from or to terminate. O continue thy loving kindness to them that know thee. – Ps. xxxvi.
2. To extend from one thing to another; to produce or draw out in length. Continue the line from A to B. Let the line be continued to the boundary.
3. To persevere in; not to cease to do or use; as, to continue the same diet.
4. To hold or unite. [Not used.] The navel continues the infant to its mother. – Brown.

CON-TIN'UED, pp.

1. Drawn out; protracted; produced; extended in length; extended without interruption.
2. adj. Extended in time without intermission; proceeding without cessation; unceasing; as a continued fever, which abates but never entirely intermits. A continued base is performed through the whole piece. Continued proportion, in arithmetic, is where the consequent of the first ratio is the same with the antecedent of the second, as 4 : 8 : 8 : 16, in contradistinction from discrete proportion. – Encyc.

CON-TIN'U-ED-LY, adv.

Without interruption; without ceasing. – Norris.

CON-TIN'U-ER, n.

One who continues; one that has the power of perseverance. – Shak.

CON-TIN'U-ING, ppr.

1. Remaining fixed or permanent; abiding; lasting; enduring; persevering; protracting; producing in length.
2. adj. Permanent. Here we have no continuing city. – Heb. xiii.

CON-TI-NU'I-TY, n. [L. continuitas.]

Connection uninterrupted; cohesion; close union of parts; unbroken texture. Philosophers talk of the solution of continuity.

CON-TIN'U-O, adv.

In music, continued.

CON-TIN'U-OUS, a. [L. continuus.]

Joined without intervening space; as, continuous depth. Thomson.

CON-TIN'U-OUS-LY, adv.

In continuation without interruption.

CON-TOR'NI-ATE, n. [It. contorno, contornato, turned about.]

In numismatics, a species of medals or medallions of bronze, let into a circle of another material. – Elmes.

CON-TORT', v.t. [L. contorqueo, contortus; con and torqueo, tortus.]

To twist together; to writhe.

CON-TORT'ED, pp.

Twisted together. A contorted coral, in botany, has the edge of one petal lying over the next, in an oblique direction. – Martyn.

CON-TOR'TION, n. [Fr. contorsion; L. contortio.]

1. A twisting; a writhing; a wresting; a twist; wry motion; as, the contortion of the muscles of the face. – Swift.
2. In medicine, a twisting or wresting of a limb or member of the body out of its natural situation; the iliac passion; partial dislocation; distorted spine; contracted neck. – Encyc. Coxe.

CON-TOUR', n. [Fr. contour; It. contorno; Sp. id.; con and tour, torno, a turn.]

The outline; the line that defines or terminates a figure. – Encyc. Johnson.

CON-TOUR'NI-ATED, a.

Having edges appearing as if turned in a lathe. – Encyc.

CON'TRA, prep.

A Latin preposition signifying against, in opposition, entering into the composition of some English words. It appears to be a compound of con and tra, like intra; tra for W. tras. Fr. contre.