[f. CONTINUE v. + -ER1.]
1. One who continues, or carries on; esp. one who continues a history or other unfinished work.
1548. Hall, Chron., 245 b. The norice and continuer of warre and hostilitie.
1658. W. Burton, Itin. Anton., 222. The Continuer of Thuanus his History.
1658. Slingsby, Diary (1836), 213. Holding only Fame to be the strongest continuer of a family.
1706. Hearne, Collect., 25 May (Oxf. Hist. Soc.), I. 253. The Continuer of Athenæ Oxon.
1875. Whitney, Life Lang., vii. 119. The inheritors and continuers of a common civilization.
2. One who continues in a state, etc.; one who persists, remains, keeps on, stays.
1548. Hall, Chron. Hen. IV., an. 1. 11. He now obteynyng the crowne of the realme, yf he wer therin a long continuer.
1581. Mulcaster, Positions, xxxix. (1887), 211. Continuers at home.
1599. Shaks., Much Ado, I. i. 143. I would my horse had the speed of your tongue, and so good a continuer.
1632. D. Lupton, Lond. & Country carbonadoed, Tenants at will, in Halliwell, Repr. Charac. Bks. (1857), 309. These are Continuers onely upon their Maisters pleasure.
