continuate

continuate

English

Etymology

From the past participle of Latin continuare.

Adjective

continuate (comparative more continuate, superlative most continuate)

1. (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.

2. (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)

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Italian

Verb

continuate

1. second-person plural present indicative of continuare
2. second-person plural imperative of continuare
3. feminine plural of continuato

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Latin

Verb

continuāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of continuō