Obs. [f. L. continuāt- ppl. stem of continuāre to CONTINUE.]
1. trans. To make continuous in space or substance; to give continuity to.
1578. Banister, Hist. Man, VII. 90. To the inuolucre of the hart … the same coate [the pleura] … is continuated, and tyed.
a. 1632. L. Hutten, Antiq. Oxford, in Plummer, Elizabethan Oxford (1887), 85. The Deane and Chapter … daming upp the old Channell that ran into Charwell, continuated the two Meadowes into one.
1646. Sir T. Browne, Pseud. Ep., II. i. Oyled paper, wherein the interstitiall divisions being continuated by the accession of oyle.
a. 1834. Coleridge, Shaks. Notes (1849), 87. All that continuates society, as sense of ancestry and of sex.
2. To make continuous in time; to perpetuate.
1611. Speed, Hist. Gt. Brit., IX. xxiv. To containe, and continuate the remembrance of her vertuous, pious, and glorious gouernment.
1624. Brief Inform. Affairs Palat., 57. [They] made a mockerie of the said Truce, and continuated their Hostilities.
1653. Gataker, Vind. Annot. Jer., 17. Devising a new Church Government … and … establishing and continuating the same.
Hence Continuated, Continuating ppl. a.
1632. trans. Bruel’s Praxis Med., 198. The continuated parts … doe appeare loosened.
1666. G. Harvey, Morb. Angl., iv. 32. By a continuated motion upon a continuated body, as all liquors are.
1650. Sir T. Browne, Pseud. Ep., II. v. (ed. 2). Bodies run into glass when the volatile parts are exhaled, and the continuating humour separated.
