Obs. [ad. L. continuāt-us, pa. pple. of continuāre to CONTINUE.]
1. pa. pple. CONTINUED, kept on. Obs.
1471. Ripley, Comp. Alch., V., in Ashm. (1652), 151. The Waters of Noyes flud … whych were a hundred dayes contynuate And fyfty.
2. adj. Continued without break or interstices; continuous in space or substance.
1555. Eden, Decades, 213. This lande is continuate and one firme lande with the cape of saynte Augustine.
1597. Hooker, Eccl. Pol., V. lvi. § 7. As though our very flesh and bones should be made continuate with his.
1610. Guillim, Heraldry, III. xxiii. (1611), 170. The Hardnes of Scalie fish is not continuat, but Plated, fitting for Motion; but there is another sort of hard couering, which is continuate. Of which … some are shelled.
1656. [? J. Sergeant], trans. T. White’s Peripat. Inst., 326. If it were divisible, ’twould be continuate and divisible without end.
b. Continuous in time or order, uninterrupted in duration.
1601. F. Godwin, Bps. of Eng., 136. There is not any precise Catalogue or continuate history.
1604. Shaks., Oth., III. iv. 178. I shall in a more continuate time Strike off this score of absence.
1610. Healey, St. Aug. Citie of God, VII. xxvi. (1620), 272. The same hath Euemerus written in a continuate history.
3. Continued, long-continued, lasting, chronic.
1607. Shaks., Timon, I. i. 11. A most incomparable man; breath’d as it were, To an vntyreable and continuate goodnesse.
c. 1621. S. Ward, Life of Faith (1627), As constant and continuate as is the vse of fire and water.
1621. Burton, Anat. Mel., I. i. I. v. A Chronick or continuate disease, a setled humor.
1635. Brathwait, Arcad. P’cess, 36. The continuate remembrance of our owne integrity.
4. ? Constantly adjourned. Obs.
1598. Barret, Theor. Warres, V. v. 163. The encamping of an army being a continuate thing, the dislodging or remouing of a campe must needs be a consequence.
Hence † Continuately adv., † Continuateness.
1601–2. Fulbecke, 2nd Pt. Parall., 59. Esau and Iacob famous twinnes were borne so continuatly together.
1641. Wilkins, Mercury, xi. (1707), 47. Writing continuately, without any Distinction betwixt the Words.
1645. Digby, Nat. Bodies, xxxvi. (1658), 379. That the continuateness of the sent may not lead dogges to their forme.
