Emily Dickinson Lexicon

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.