adv. [f. prec. + -LY2.] In a continuous manner; uninterruptedly, without break; continually, constantly.

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1678.  Cudworth, Intell. Syst., 167 (R.). Which … incorporates the newly received nourishment, and joins it continuously with the preexistent parts of flesh and bone.

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1826.  Foster, in Life & Corr. (1846), II. 94. He spoke continuously for a considerable time.

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1875.  Lyell, Princ. Geol., I. II. xxv. 623. These may sometimes mantle continuously round the whole mass.

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1879.  Nature, 20 Nov., 58. A body which is changing its speed every … hundredth part of a moment or what we call continuously.

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1881.  Maxwell, Electr. & Magn., I. 6. A quantity is said to vary continuously, if, when it passes from one value to another, it assumes all the intermediate values.

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