Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for CON-TI-NENT'AL
CON-TI-NENT'AL, a.
Pertaining or relating to a continent; as, the continental powers of Europe. In America, pertaining to the United States, as continental money, in distinction from what pertains to the separate states; a word much used during the revolution.
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