[f. CONTINUE v. + -IST.] One who holds a theory of continuity or continuousness.
Hence Continuistic a. (see quot.)
1883. Schaff, Encycl. Rel. Knowl., II. 1453. He advocated what is called the continuistic view of the apocalyptic prophecies; i.e., that they are predictive of progressive history, being partly fulfilled, partly unfulfilled.