continentn.

Brit.

/ˈkɒntᵻnənt/, U.S.

/ˈkɑnt(ə)nənt/

Etymology: < Latin continēnt-em (in senses I., II.), substantive use of present participle of continēre : see continent adj. and contain v. Italian continente mainland is in Florio, 1598; the French is not in Cotgrave 1611.

I. A containing agent or space.

a. That which contains or holds. Now rare or archaic.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > equipment > receptacle or container > [noun]

receivera1398

resetc1400

receipta1425

receptaclec1425

repository1485

receptorya1500

pot1503

container?1504

hold1517

containing?1541

continent?1541

receptable1566

nest1589

conceptacle1611

keep1617

house1625

reception1646

inholder1660

conceptaculum1691

penholder1815

holder1833

carrier1855

compactum1907

?1541 R. Copland Guy de Chauliac's Questyonary Cyrurgyens ii. sig. Div The contenauntes that be without, fyrst ben the heares, than the lether or skynne, & than the flesshe.

1579 T. North tr. Plutarch Liues 340 A Cylinder..conteining a massie Sphære, with an inscription of the proportion, wherof the continent excedeth the thing conteined.

1600 W. Shakespeare Midsummer Night's Dream ii. i. 92 Fogges..falling in the land, Hath euery pelting riuer made so proude, That they haue ouerborne their Continents .

1613 T. Adams White Deuil 60 The Bag is a continent to money, and the world is a continent to the Bag.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Antony & Cleopatra (1623) iv. xv. 40 Heart, once be stronger then thy Continent, Cracke thy fraile Case.

1764 C. Churchill Duellist i. 7 Earthquakes..Rive their concealing continent.

1868 G. MacDonald Seaboard Parish II. v. 66 Stealing from the significance of the content by the meretricious grandeur of the continent.

1886 R. L. Stevenson Strange Case Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde ii. 26 Is it the mere radiance of a foul soul that thus transpires through..its clay continent?

b. figurative. That which comprises or sums up; summary, sum and substance (sometimes not distinguishable from content, that which is contained). Now rare or archaic.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > speech > narration > [noun] > summarizing > summary

sum1340

conclusionc1405

capitlea1425

docketa1483

chapiter1483

summary1509

summar1565

collection1579

continent1590

epilogue1646

summing up1795

sum-up1848

sum totalization1855

run-through1946

1590 R. Greene Neuer too Late i. 27 They be women..and therefore the continents of all excellence.

1600 W. Shakespeare Merchant of Venice iii. ii. 130 Heeres the scroule, the continent and summarie of my fortune.

1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet v. ii. 107 + 5 You shall find in him the continent of what part a Gentleman would see.

1638 W. Laud Relat. Conf. Fisher §14 I did not say that the Book of Articles onely was the Continent of the Church of Englands publique Doctrine. She is not so narrow.

1643 E. Symmons Loyall Subj. Beliefe 61 Rebellion..is the continent and cause of all sin.

1788 N. Tucker tr. E. Swedenborg Wisdom of Angels iii. §216. 177 The Ultimate is the Complex, Continent and Basis of Things prior.

1869 W. Mitchell Truthseeker at Change 184 Nowhere do we find the power itself but only the continent of the power.

†2. Containing area, space, or bulk; capacity; = content n.¹ 5, 6 Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > [noun] > a containing space > capacity

receivablenessc1443

capacity1481

content1491

receipt1565

continenta1608

capability1616

receptibility1651

gauge1655

reception1667

the world > space > relative position > condition of being internal > containing or having within > [noun] > ability to contain

content1491

receipt1565

continenta1608

capacity1885

the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > [noun] > a) dimension(s) > property of having two dimensions > surface extent or area

superficialty?a1425

area?a1560

capacity?a1560

superficies1571

content1576

spread1584

continenta1608

containdure1623

surfacea1640

superficiality1690

a1608 F. Vere Comm. (1631) 124 The whole plot of continent sufficient to receive eight or nine hundred men.

1615 G. Markham Eng. House-wife (1668) ii. vii. 169 The quantity..should ever be answerable to the continent of your Cistern.

1660 R. Coke Elements Power & Subjection 78 in Justice Vindicated There never was in so small a Continent so great a number of people.

1666 Ashmole Diary (1774) 385 [The goblet] being of so large a continent, past the hands of thirty to pledge.

II. Continuous land, mainland.

†3.

a. A connected or continuous tract of land. Obsolete. (Cf. continent adj. 6.)

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > land > tract > [noun] > continuous

continent land1530

continent1559

continue1630

1559 W. Cuningham Cosmogr. Glasse 113 Continens..is a portion of th' Earth, which is not parted by the Seas asounder [margin has Continent].

1599 R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations (new ed.) II. Ep. Ded. sig. ^*3 That large and fruitfull Continent of the West Indies.

1609 P. Erondelle (title) Nova Francia: or the Description of that part of New France which is one Continent with Virginia.

1611 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. vii. v. 293/1 [Kent] contained the Continent that lieth betwixt our East-Ocean and the Riuer Thames.

1657 J. Sergeant Schism Dispach't 541 A Primacy, that is, the highest in that continent [Ireland].

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost x. 392 Made one Realm Hell and this World, one Realm, one Continent Of easie thorough-fare.

1677 Earl of Orrery Treat. Art of War 133 All the continents of Europe.

†b. The land as opposed to the water, etc.; ‘terra firma’; the earth. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > land > [noun]

landc900

groundOE

earthOE

dry landa1225

sandc1275

dry1382

continent1590

fastland1680

terra firma1692

region1697

firm land1872

1590 C. Marlowe Tamburlaine: 2nd Pt. sig. F4^v He That with the Cannon shooke Vienna walles. And made it dance vpon the Continent.

1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene iii. v. sig. Gg4 The carcas with the streame was carried downe, But th'head fell backeward on the Continent.

1600 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 2 (2nd issue) iii. i. 46 Make mountaines leuell, and the continent..melt it selfe Into the sea.

†c. The ‘solid globe’ or orb of the sun or moon. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the universe > celestial sphere > zone of celestial sphere > sphere of ancient astronomy > [noun] > of particular body > of sun or moon

globe1559

continenta1616

a1616 W. Shakespeare Twelfth Night (1623) v. i. 269 All those sayings, will I..Keepe as true in soule, As doth that Orbed Continent, the fire, That seuers day from night.

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost v. 422 Nor doth the Moon no nourishment exhale From her moist Continent to higher Orbes.

†4.

a. esp. The main land, as distinguished from islands, islets, or peninsulas; mainland. Obsolete except as in 4b, or when referring to one of the recognized continents of modern Geography: see 5.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > land > land mass > mainland > [noun]

mainlandc1440

sure land1525

steadfast land1530

firm land1553

main1555

in-country1565

continent1576

fastland1581

firm1582

terra firma1665

1576 A. Fleming tr. Hippocrates in Panoplie Epist. 284 Islanders covet the commodities of the continent, or firme ground.

1605 R. Verstegan Restit. Decayed Intelligence iv. 111 No more then men wil euer carry foxes..out of our continent into the Ile of Wight.

a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) Wales 17 A small Fret (known by the peculiar name of Menai) sundreth it from the Welsh Continent.

1725 D. Defoe New Voy. round World i. 120 It is not yet known, whether that Country be an Island or the Continent.

1745 E. Haywood Female Spectator (1748) III. 291 She cried out we were on the continent of Summatra.

1786 W. Gilpin Observ. Mountains & Lakes Cumberland I. 137 The grandeur of each part of the continent is called in..to aid the insignificance of the island [in Windermere].

1808 W. Scott Marmion iii. xx. 153 Threatening both continent and isle, Bute, Arran, Cunninghame, and Kyle.

1862 D. T. Ansted & R. G. Latham Channel Islands ii. xii. 301 They are also continental,—continental of the continent of France.

b. spec. the Continent n. the mainland of Europe, as distinguished from the British Isles. (Originally a specific use of 4; now commonly referred to 5.)

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > named regions of earth > Europe > [noun] > continental Europe

continent1601

mainland1852

1590 J. Smythe Certain Disc. Weapons 27 b They are in the continent, where everie kingdome and state doth joyne one to another without anie partition of sea.]

1601 R. Johnson tr. G. Botero Trauellers Breuiat 54 In those times the legions of Britannie were transported into the continent.

c1654 E. Waller Panegyric to Ld. Protector xxvi Holland..is content To be our outguard on the Continent.

1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. 291 Men who had travelled much on the continent.

1873 ‘Mrs. Alexander’ Wooin' o't xviii She was going back to the Continent with her husband.

a. One of the main continuous bodies of land on the earth's surface. Currently there are no strict criteria for defining continents, but they generally correspond to continental shelves. They can also be defined along cultural lines. This results in up to seven continents: Africa, North America, South America, Antarctica, Asia, Australia, and Europe. Some geological models may merge some of these together, or may include submerged areas of continental crust as separate continents.Until the 19th century the continents were often divided into two groups, each forming a continuous mass of land: the Old, comprising Africa, Asia, and Europe; and the New, formed by North and South America. Sometimes the word continent has been used to refer to these groups.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > land > land mass > continent > [noun]

continenta1613

supercontinent1923

protocontinent1952

a1613 E. Brerewood Enq. Langs. & Relig. (1614) xiv. 119 Europe, Afrique, and Asia..the South or Antarctique continent [etc.].

1621 P. Heylyn Microcosmus 2 A Continent is a great quantity of land, not interlaced or separated by the Sea, in which many kingdomes and principalities are confined.

1625 N. Carpenter Geogr. Delineated ii. vii. 115 Toward the North are placed the great Continents of Europe, Asia, almost all Africa, and the greatest part of America.

1728 E. Chambers Cycl. (at cited word) The World is ordinarily divided into two grand Continents, the old and the new.

1813 Butler Geogr. ii The left or Western Hemisphere contains the two Continents of North and South America.

1813 Butler Geogr. iv New Holland, an immense Island, which some geographers dignify with the appellation of another continent.

1856 J. A. Froude Hist. Eng. (1858) I. i. 59 A new continent had risen up beyond the western sea.

1873 C. Robinson New S. Wales 79 Sydney—once the capital of the Australian Continent..remains the metropolis of New South Wales.

b. transferred. A continuous mass or extent of land of any kind, of ice, or the like.

ΚΠ

1786 W. Gilpin Observ. Mountains & Lakes Cumberland I. 187 Detached from this continent of precipice, if I may so speak, stands a rocky hill.

1862 J. Ruskin Munera Pulveris (1880) 173 The forests which now make continents of fruitful land pathless and poisonous.

c. figurative.

ΚΠ

1743 E. Young Complaint: Night the Fourth 38 From Nature's Continent, immensely wide, Immensely blest, this little Isle of Life,..Divides us.

1843 T. Carlyle Past & Present i. ii. 13 Continents of parchment.

1878 R. W. Dale Lect. Preaching (ed. 3) iv. 90 The broad continent of the intellectual and moral life of man.

†6. American History. Applied, during and immediately after the War of Independence, as a collective term for those colonies in revolt (which ultimately became the United States). Cf. continental adj. 3.

ΚΠ

1760 New Jersey Arch. XX. 514 Every well disposed Person, either on the Continent, or in the West India Islands.

1765 Boston Town Rec. 18 Sept. The Representative of most of the other Collonies on the Continent.

1774 G. Morris in J. Sparks Life G. Morris (1832) I. 27 Uniting the whole continent in one grand legislature.

1781 T. Jefferson Corr. (1859) I. 304 There are some collections of forage and provisions belonging to the Continent, and some to the State.

c1784 S. Osgood in Proc. Mass. Hist. Soc. V. 465 The plan for settling the accounts of the several states with the Continent.

III. [substantive use of continent adj. 1]

7. Church History. = Encratite n.

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > sect > Christianity > major early Christian sects > Gnosticism > [noun] > person > encratite

Severian1607

Severite1607

Encratitea1616

continent1702

abstinent1753

1702 L. Echard Gen. Eccl. Hist. iii. iii. 335 Justin's Scholar Tatian..form'd a new Sect, call'd by the Name of Encratites or Continents.

†8. A continent person; a married person or widow under vow of continency. Obsolete. (Cf. penitent n.)

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > moderation in sensuous gratification > [noun] > abstinence > person

abstinent1440

continent1494

1494 Will of Pernell Rogers (P.R.O.: PROB. 11/10) f. 251^v I Pernell the continent of Criste & late wif of, etc.

a1641 R. Montagu Acts & Monuments (1642) 72 With other holy Saints, Virgins, Confessors, Continents, and Ascetæ.

Compounds

continent-country, continent-island, one approaching in size to a continent; continent-wide adj. throughout a (specified) continent.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > land > land mass > continent > [adjective]

continental1818

trans-continental1853

intercontinental1855

subcontinental1870

continent-wide1936

protocontinental1964

1888 Pall Mall Gaz. 23 Jan. In none of the great Indian Empires of the ages that are past, had any such union of the diverse peoples of this continent-country been effected.

1936 M. Franklin All that Swagger xiii. 123 His practice of equality with all men foreran a continent-wide experiment.

a1963 L. MacNeice Astrol. (1964) ix. 278 These predictions set off a continent-wide panic.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

continentadj.

Brit.

/ˈkɒntᵻnənt/, U.S.

/ˈkɑnt(ə)nənt/

Forms: Also Middle English conteynent, Middle English–1500s contynent.

Etymology: < Old French continent 12th cent. in Littré, in sense 1), < Latin continēnt-em lit. ‘holding together’, hence ‘contiguous, connected, continuous’, also ‘holding oneself in, self-restraining, restraining one's passions’ (the latter the sense in which the word was first taken into the modern languages), present participle of continēre : see contain v.

I. Holding in, restraining.

1. Self-restraining, or marked by self-restraint, esp. in relation to bodily passions, appetites, or indulgences; temperate.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > moderation in sensuous gratification > [adjective] > abstinent

continentc1384

abstinenta1400

abstentious1839

c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Titus i. 8 It bihoueth a bischop for to be..iust, hooly, contynent [1526 Tyndale temperate; L. continentem; Gk. ἐγκρατῆ].

a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1871) III. 313 His deeth schewed that he was vertuous and contynent.

a1616 W. Shakespeare King Lear (1623) i. ii. 155 I pray you haue a continent forbearance till the speed of his rage goes slower.

1630 R. Norton tr. W. Camden Hist. Princesse Elizabeth iv. 21 Of such continent moderation was he in coueting.

1841 R. W. Emerson Addr. Man Reformer in Wks. (1875) II. 247 Not..a subject of irregular and interrupted impulses of virtue, but a continent, persisting, immovable person.

1885 Sir A. Grant Aristotle's Eth. I. xiii. (note) In the continent and the incontinent man [τοῦ ἐγκρατοῦς καὶ ἀκρατοῦς] we praise the reason..but there appears also to be something else in them..which fights and strives against the reason.

2. spec. Characterized by self-restraint in the matter of sexual indulgence; chaste.

ΘΚΠ

society > morality > virtue > purity > chastity > [adjective] > chaste

sedefulc1000

chaste?c1225

purec1380

continenta1398

castc1430

chastful1497

unwanton1606

moral1803

a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xviii. i. 1097 Some [bestes] ben contynent and chaste alway, as been.

1483 W. Caxton tr. J. de Voragine Golden Legende 34/4 The chore or quyer signefieth the continente. And the body sygnefyeth thordre of them that ben maryed.

1581 J. Marbeck Bk. Notes & Common Places 59 Saint Paule foretelleth of Antichrists disciples, that they shall beare a great countenaunce of continent life, & forbid mariage.

1623 H. Cockeram Eng. Dict. Continent, chaste [1626 sober].

1882 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon Continent..practising continence.

in extended use.1587 A. Fleming et al. Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) III. 520/2 The shamefull villanie..was such, as honest eares would be ashamed to heare, and continent toongs to speake thereof.

†3.

a. Restraining, restrictive. Obsolete.Both quots. may be in sense 2; at least there is apparently a play on that sense.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > subjection > restraint or restraining > restriction or limitation > [adjective]

restraintive1526

limitative1530

circumscribing1571

restrictive1580

continent1598

restricting1606

confininga1616

contractive1624

strait-lacing1636

limiting1656

cohibitive1668

contracting1765

limitary1822

restrictionary1828

the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > quality of being special or restricted in application > quality of being restricted or limited > [adjective] > restricting or limiting

narroweOE

restraintive1526

limitative1530

circumscribing1571

restrictive1580

restraining1597

continent1598

restricting1606

confininga1616

contractive1624

strait-lacing1636

limiting1656

cohibitive1668

contracting1765

restrictory1776

limitary1822

restrictionary1828

scopeless1882

1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost i. i. 252 Contrary to thy established proclaymed Edict and continent Cannon.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) iv. iii. 65 My Desire All continent Impediments would ore-beare That did oppose my will.

b. Holding in, keeping back, retentive of. rare.

ΚΠ

1841 T. Carlyle On Heroes vi. 363 I am continent of my thought hitherto.

4. Containing; capable of containing, capacious. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > [adjective] > roomy > capacious

capable1594

wide-side1606

captiousa1616

generous1615

capacious1656

spacious1819

continent1856

the world > space > relative position > condition of being internal > containing or having within > [adjective] > able to hold or contain

capable1571

capacious1614

continent1856

1579 T. North tr. Plutarch Liues 340 A Cylinder..containing a massie Sphære, with an inscription of the proportion, wherof the continent excedeth the thing conteined.

1605 F. Bacon Of Aduancem. Learning i. sig. B1 If there be no fulnesse, then is the Continent greater, than the Content. ]

1856 S. T. Dobell Eng. in Time of War 96 The round Of the dull continent flesh.

1867 R. C. Trench Study of Words (ed. 12) vii Old vessels..continent of the new life.

1870 Pall Mall Gaz. 9 Aug. 12 Fashion..is as continent as the Black-hole in Calcutta.

5. Medicine. Having normal voluntary control over one's excretory functions. Opposed to incontinent adj.¹ 3.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > the body > organs of excretion > defecation or urination > [adjective] > control of

continent1941

1941 Amer. Jrnl. Obstetr. & Gynecol. 41 1051 Two patients are now continent.

1958 Jrnl. Urol. 80 344/1 The dogs..were perfectly continent between voidings even during running and jumping.

1979 Urologia Internat. XXXIV. 172 No signs of a stress incontinence could be objectified in the women of group II, even though, according to their own statements, they were not completely continent.

II. [ < Latin continēre (intransitive) to hold together, be continuous.]

†6. Holding or hanging together in space.

a. Cohering, continuous, or uninterrupted in itself. continent land n. land extending connectedly or continuously over a large space: see continent n. 3, 4.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > land > tract > [noun] > continuous

continent land1530

continent1559

continue1630

the world > the earth > land > tract > [adjective] > continuous

continent1530

continented1654

1530 tr. Caesar Commentaryes xiii. 18 Cesar before entendyd to ly that winter tyme in contynent land.

1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde f. 310 Affirmynge that those landes are from thense continent and greate.

1569 R. Grafton Chron. I. 36 The mayne and continent land of the whole worlde.

1648 T. Gage Eng.-Amer. (1655) xii. 55 Being the same continued continent land.

†b. Connected to or with, continuous with. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > extension in space > [adjective] > without a break > forming continuous extent with

continual1578

continenta1593

continuous1693

the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > fact or action of being joined or joining > fact or action of being connected or connecting > [adjective] > connected continuously to or with

continuate1555

continual1578

continenta1593

contigual1610

continuous1693

a1593 C. Marlowe Tragicall Hist. Faustus (1604) sig. B2^v Ile ioyne the hils that binde the Affricke shore, And make that land continent to Spaine.

1605 R. Verstegan Restit. Decayed Intelligence iv. 88 It is shewed to haue bin continent or firme-land with Gallia.

a1613 E. Brerewood Enq. Langs. & Relig. (1614) xiii. 97 Those parts of Asia and America, are continent one with the other.

1614 W. Raleigh Hist. World i. v. vi. §7. 746 These [bridges] were couered with plankes and turfe; that they might seeme continent with the ground.

1693 J. Ray Three Physico-theol. Disc. (ed. 2) ii. v. 165 Great Britain, was anciently Continent to Gaule.

7. Continuous in duration; not intermittent. (Old Medicine and Physiology.)

†a. continent fever n. see quots. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > fever > [noun] > continuous fever

continuec1500

synochus1625

continent fever1684

continued fever1778

synocha1801

1684 tr. T. Bonet Guide Pract. Physician vi. 158 Galen..cures Continent and Continual fevers onely by bleeding.

1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Continent Feaver, is that which performs its Course without any Intermission, or Abatement.

1778 W. Cullen First Lines Pract. Physic (ed. 2) I. i. i. §28 A Continent Fever.

†b. continent cause [ < modern Latin causa continens, French cause continente] : see quots. 1706, 1753. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > production of disease > [noun] > cause of disease

conjunct causec1400

continent cause1605

procatarctic1666

procatarxis1681

germ1700

predisponent1771

the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > characteristics > [adjective] > chronic

rooteda1398

confirmed1398

continual1528

inveterate?1541

veterated1547

chronic1601

chronical1604

continent cause1605

continuatea1616

radicated1631

radicate1720

settled1811

1605 F. Bacon Of Aduancem. Learning ii. sig. Ll1^v In that, is the Cause Continent of many diseases.

1656 J. Smith Compl. Pract. Physick 95 The continent cause is evacuated by purging.

1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Continent Cause of a Distemper, is that on which the Disease depends so immediately, that it continues so long as that remains, and ceases when the said Cause is remov'd.

1707 J. Floyer Physician's Pulse-watch 53 The continent causes of the Pulse are the strength of the Spirits, and the irritation of the Blood.

1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. at Cause Continent, conjunct, or proximate Cause, that principle in the body which immediately adheres to the disease, and which being present, the disease is also present.

8. as adv.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > moderation in sensuous gratification > [adverb] > abstinently

continent1536

continently1554

abstinently1572

1536 Prymer Salysbery Use (STC 15992) f. cxlv And yet I loue hym contynent My fayth in hym is not myspent.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	continent
释义	continentn. Brit. /ˈkɒntᵻnənt/, U.S. /ˈkɑnt(ə)nənt/ Etymology: < Latin continēnt-em (in senses I., II.), substantive use of present participle of continēre : see continent adj. and contain v. Italian continente mainland is in Florio, 1598; the French is not in Cotgrave 1611. I. A containing agent or space. 1. a. That which contains or holds. Now rare or archaic. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > receptacle or container > [noun] receivera1398 resetc1400 receipta1425 receptaclec1425 repository1485 receptorya1500 pot1503 container?1504 hold1517 containing?1541 continent?1541 receptable1566 nest1589 conceptacle1611 keep1617 house1625 reception1646 inholder1660 conceptaculum1691 penholder1815 holder1833 carrier1855 compactum1907 ?1541 R. Copland Guy de Chauliac's Questyonary Cyrurgyens ii. sig. Div The contenauntes that be without, fyrst ben the heares, than the lether or skynne, & than the flesshe. 1579 T. North tr. Plutarch Liues 340 A Cylinder..conteining a massie Sphære, with an inscription of the proportion, wherof the continent excedeth the thing conteined. 1600 W. Shakespeare Midsummer Night's Dream ii. i. 92 Fogges..falling in the land, Hath euery pelting riuer made so proude, That they haue ouerborne their Continents . View more context for this quotation 1613 T. Adams White Deuil 60 The Bag is a continent to money, and the world is a continent to the Bag. a1616 W. Shakespeare Antony & Cleopatra (1623) iv. xv. 40 Heart, once be stronger then thy Continent, Cracke thy fraile Case. View more context for this quotation 1764 C. Churchill Duellist i. 7 Earthquakes..Rive their concealing continent. 1868 G. MacDonald Seaboard Parish II. v. 66 Stealing from the significance of the content by the meretricious grandeur of the continent. 1886 R. L. Stevenson Strange Case Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde ii. 26 Is it the mere radiance of a foul soul that thus transpires through..its clay continent? b. figurative. That which comprises or sums up; summary, sum and substance (sometimes not distinguishable from content, that which is contained). Now rare or archaic. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > narration > [noun] > summarizing > summary sum1340 conclusionc1405 capitlea1425 docketa1483 chapiter1483 summary1509 summar1565 collection1579 continent1590 epilogue1646 summing up1795 sum-up1848 sum totalization1855 run-through1946 1590 R. Greene Neuer too Late i. 27 They be women..and therefore the continents of all excellence. 1600 W. Shakespeare Merchant of Venice iii. ii. 130 Heeres the scroule, the continent and summarie of my fortune. View more context for this quotation 1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet v. ii. 107 + 5 You shall find in him the continent of what part a Gentleman would see. 1638 W. Laud Relat. Conf. Fisher §14 I did not say that the Book of Articles onely was the Continent of the Church of Englands publique Doctrine. She is not so narrow. 1643 E. Symmons Loyall Subj. Beliefe 61 Rebellion..is the continent and cause of all sin. 1788 N. Tucker tr. E. Swedenborg Wisdom of Angels iii. §216. 177 The Ultimate is the Complex, Continent and Basis of Things prior. 1869 W. Mitchell Truthseeker at Change 184 Nowhere do we find the power itself but only the continent of the power. †2. Containing area, space, or bulk; capacity; = content n.¹ 5, 6 Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > space > [noun] > a containing space > capacity receivablenessc1443 capacity1481 content1491 receipt1565 continenta1608 capability1616 receptibility1651 gauge1655 reception1667 the world > space > relative position > condition of being internal > containing or having within > [noun] > ability to contain content1491 receipt1565 continenta1608 capacity1885 the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > [noun] > a) dimension(s) > property of having two dimensions > surface extent or area superficialty?a1425 area?a1560 capacity?a1560 superficies1571 content1576 spread1584 continenta1608 containdure1623 surfacea1640 superficiality1690 a1608 F. Vere Comm. (1631) 124 The whole plot of continent sufficient to receive eight or nine hundred men. 1615 G. Markham Eng. House-wife (1668) ii. vii. 169 The quantity..should ever be answerable to the continent of your Cistern. 1660 R. Coke Elements Power & Subjection 78 in Justice Vindicated There never was in so small a Continent so great a number of people. 1666 Ashmole Diary (1774) 385 [The goblet] being of so large a continent, past the hands of thirty to pledge. II. Continuous land, mainland. †3. a. A connected or continuous tract of land. Obsolete. (Cf. continent adj. 6.) ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > tract > [noun] > continuous continent land1530 continent1559 continue1630 1559 W. Cuningham Cosmogr. Glasse 113 Continens..is a portion of th' Earth, which is not parted by the Seas asounder [margin has Continent]. 1599 R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations (new ed.) II. Ep. Ded. sig. ^3 That large and fruitfull Continent of the West Indies. 1609 P. Erondelle (title) Nova Francia: or the Description of that part of New France which is one Continent with Virginia. 1611 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit.* vii. v. 293/1 [Kent] contained the Continent that lieth betwixt our East-Ocean and the Riuer Thames. 1657 J. Sergeant Schism Dispach't 541 A Primacy, that is, the highest in that continent [Ireland]. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost x. 392 Made one Realm Hell and this World, one Realm, one Continent Of easie thorough-fare. View more context for this quotation 1677 Earl of Orrery Treat. Art of War 133 All the continents of Europe. †b. The land as opposed to the water, etc.; ‘terra firma’; the earth. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > [noun] landc900 groundOE earthOE dry landa1225 sandc1275 dry1382 continent1590 fastland1680 terra firma1692 region1697 firm land1872 1590 C. Marlowe Tamburlaine: 2nd Pt. sig. F4^v He That with the Cannon shooke Vienna walles. And made it dance vpon the Continent. 1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene iii. v. sig. Gg4 The carcas with the streame was carried downe, But th'head fell backeward on the Continent. 1600 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 2 (2nd issue) iii. i. 46 Make mountaines leuell, and the continent..melt it selfe Into the sea. †c. The ‘solid globe’ or orb of the sun or moon. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > the universe > celestial sphere > zone of celestial sphere > sphere of ancient astronomy > [noun] > of particular body > of sun or moon globe1559 continenta1616 a1616 W. Shakespeare Twelfth Night (1623) v. i. 269 All those sayings, will I..Keepe as true in soule, As doth that Orbed Continent, the fire, That seuers day from night. View more context for this quotation 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost v. 422 Nor doth the Moon no nourishment exhale From her moist Continent to higher Orbes. View more context for this quotation †4. a. esp. The main land, as distinguished from islands, islets, or peninsulas; mainland. Obsolete except as in 4b, or when referring to one of the recognized continents of modern Geography: see 5. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > land mass > mainland > [noun] mainlandc1440 sure land1525 steadfast land1530 firm land1553 main1555 in-country1565 continent1576 fastland1581 firm1582 terra firma1665 1576 A. Fleming tr. Hippocrates in Panoplie Epist. 284 Islanders covet the commodities of the continent, or firme ground. 1605 R. Verstegan Restit. Decayed Intelligence iv. 111 No more then men wil euer carry foxes..out of our continent into the Ile of Wight. a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) Wales 17 A small Fret (known by the peculiar name of Menai) sundreth it from the Welsh Continent. 1725 D. Defoe New Voy. round World i. 120 It is not yet known, whether that Country be an Island or the Continent. 1745 E. Haywood Female Spectator (1748) III. 291 She cried out we were on the continent of Summatra. 1786 W. Gilpin Observ. Mountains & Lakes Cumberland I. 137 The grandeur of each part of the continent is called in..to aid the insignificance of the island [in Windermere]. 1808 W. Scott Marmion iii. xx. 153 Threatening both continent and isle, Bute, Arran, Cunninghame, and Kyle. 1862 D. T. Ansted & R. G. Latham Channel Islands ii. xii. 301 They are also continental,—continental of the continent of France. b. spec. the Continent n. the mainland of Europe, as distinguished from the British Isles. (Originally a specific use of 4; now commonly referred to 5.) ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > named regions of earth > Europe > [noun] > continental Europe continent1601 mainland1852 1590 J. Smythe Certain Disc. Weapons 27 b They are in the continent, where everie kingdome and state doth joyne one to another without anie partition of sea.] 1601 R. Johnson tr. G. Botero Trauellers Breuiat 54 In those times the legions of Britannie were transported into the continent. c1654 E. Waller Panegyric to Ld. Protector xxvi Holland..is content To be our outguard on the Continent. 1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. 291 Men who had travelled much on the continent. 1873 ‘Mrs. Alexander’ Wooin' o't xviii She was going back to the Continent with her husband. 5. a. One of the main continuous bodies of land on the earth's surface. Currently there are no strict criteria for defining continents, but they generally correspond to continental shelves. They can also be defined along cultural lines. This results in up to seven continents: Africa, North America, South America, Antarctica, Asia, Australia, and Europe. Some geological models may merge some of these together, or may include submerged areas of continental crust as separate continents.Until the 19th century the continents were often divided into two groups, each forming a continuous mass of land: the Old, comprising Africa, Asia, and Europe; and the New, formed by North and South America. Sometimes the word continent has been used to refer to these groups. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > land mass > continent > [noun] continenta1613 supercontinent1923 protocontinent1952 a1613 E. Brerewood Enq. Langs. & Relig. (1614) xiv. 119 Europe, Afrique, and Asia..the South or Antarctique continent [etc.]. 1621 P. Heylyn Microcosmus 2 A Continent is a great quantity of land, not interlaced or separated by the Sea, in which many kingdomes and principalities are confined. 1625 N. Carpenter Geogr. Delineated ii. vii. 115 Toward the North are placed the great Continents of Europe, Asia, almost all Africa, and the greatest part of America. 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. (at cited word) The World is ordinarily divided into two grand Continents, the old and the new. 1813 Butler Geogr. ii The left or Western Hemisphere contains the two Continents of North and South America. 1813 Butler Geogr. iv New Holland, an immense Island, which some geographers dignify with the appellation of another continent. 1856 J. A. Froude Hist. Eng. (1858) I. i. 59 A new continent had risen up beyond the western sea. 1873 C. Robinson New S. Wales 79 Sydney—once the capital of the Australian Continent..remains the metropolis of New South Wales. b. transferred. A continuous mass or extent of land of any kind, of ice, or the like. ΚΠ 1786 W. Gilpin Observ. Mountains & Lakes Cumberland I. 187 Detached from this continent of precipice, if I may so speak, stands a rocky hill. 1862 J. Ruskin Munera Pulveris (1880) 173 The forests which now make continents of fruitful land pathless and poisonous. c. figurative. ΚΠ 1743 E. Young Complaint: Night the Fourth 38 From Nature's Continent, immensely wide, Immensely blest, this little Isle of Life,..Divides us. 1843 T. Carlyle Past & Present i. ii. 13 Continents of parchment. 1878 R. W. Dale Lect. Preaching (ed. 3) iv. 90 The broad continent of the intellectual and moral life of man. †6. American History. Applied, during and immediately after the War of Independence, as a collective term for those colonies in revolt (which ultimately became the United States). Cf. continental adj. 3. ΚΠ 1760 New Jersey Arch. XX. 514 Every well disposed Person, either on the Continent, or in the West India Islands. 1765 Boston Town Rec. 18 Sept. The Representative of most of the other Collonies on the Continent. 1774 G. Morris in J. Sparks Life G. Morris (1832) I. 27 Uniting the whole continent in one grand legislature. 1781 T. Jefferson Corr. (1859) I. 304 There are some collections of forage and provisions belonging to the Continent, and some to the State. c1784 S. Osgood in Proc. Mass. Hist. Soc. V. 465 The plan for settling the accounts of the several states with the Continent. III. [substantive use of continent adj. 1] 7. Church History. = Encratite n. ΘΚΠ society > faith > sect > Christianity > major early Christian sects > Gnosticism > [noun] > person > encratite Severian1607 Severite1607 Encratitea1616 continent1702 abstinent1753 1702 L. Echard Gen. Eccl. Hist. iii. iii. 335 Justin's Scholar Tatian..form'd a new Sect, call'd by the Name of Encratites or Continents. †8. A continent person; a married person or widow under vow of continency. Obsolete. (Cf. penitent n.) ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > moderation in sensuous gratification > [noun] > abstinence > person abstinent1440 continent1494 1494 Will of Pernell Rogers (P.R.O.: PROB. 11/10) f. 251^v I Pernell the continent of Criste & late wif of, etc. a1641 R. Montagu Acts & Monuments (1642) 72 With other holy Saints, Virgins, Confessors, Continents, and Ascetæ. Compounds continent-country, continent-island, one approaching in size to a continent; continent-wide adj. throughout a (specified) continent. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > land mass > continent > [adjective] continental1818 trans-continental1853 intercontinental1855 subcontinental1870 continent-wide1936 protocontinental1964 1888 Pall Mall Gaz. 23 Jan. In none of the great Indian Empires of the ages that are past, had any such union of the diverse peoples of this continent-country been effected. 1936 M. Franklin All that Swagger xiii. 123 His practice of equality with all men foreran a continent-wide experiment. a1963 L. MacNeice Astrol. (1964) ix. 278 These predictions set off a continent-wide panic. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online June 2022). continentadj. Brit. /ˈkɒntᵻnənt/, U.S. /ˈkɑnt(ə)nənt/ Forms: Also Middle English conteynent, Middle English–1500s contynent. Etymology: < Old French continent 12th cent. in Littré, in sense 1), < Latin continēnt-em lit. ‘holding together’, hence ‘contiguous, connected, continuous’, also ‘holding oneself in, self-restraining, restraining one's passions’ (the latter the sense in which the word was first taken into the modern languages), present participle of continēre : see contain v. I. Holding in, restraining. 1. Self-restraining, or marked by self-restraint, esp. in relation to bodily passions, appetites, or indulgences; temperate. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > moderation in sensuous gratification > [adjective] > abstinent continentc1384 abstinenta1400 abstentious1839 c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Titus i. 8 It bihoueth a bischop for to be..iust, hooly, contynent [1526 Tyndale temperate; L. continentem; Gk. ἐγκρατῆ]. a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1871) III. 313 His deeth schewed that he was vertuous and contynent. a1616 W. Shakespeare King Lear (1623) i. ii. 155 I pray you haue a continent forbearance till the speed of his rage goes slower. 1630 R. Norton tr. W. Camden Hist. Princesse Elizabeth iv. 21 Of such continent moderation was he in coueting. 1841 R. W. Emerson Addr. Man Reformer in Wks. (1875) II. 247 Not..a subject of irregular and interrupted impulses of virtue, but a continent, persisting, immovable person. 1885 Sir A. Grant Aristotle's Eth. I. xiii. (note) In the continent and the incontinent man [τοῦ ἐγκρατοῦς καὶ ἀκρατοῦς] we praise the reason..but there appears also to be something else in them..which fights and strives against the reason. 2. spec. Characterized by self-restraint in the matter of sexual indulgence; chaste. ΘΚΠ society > morality > virtue > purity > chastity > [adjective] > chaste sedefulc1000 chaste?c1225 purec1380 continenta1398 castc1430 chastful1497 unwanton1606 moral1803 a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xviii. i. 1097 Some [bestes] ben contynent and chaste alway, as been. 1483 W. Caxton tr. J. de Voragine Golden Legende 34/4 The chore or quyer signefieth the continente. And the body sygnefyeth thordre of them that ben maryed. 1581 J. Marbeck Bk. Notes & Common Places 59 Saint Paule foretelleth of Antichrists disciples, that they shall beare a great countenaunce of continent life, & forbid mariage. 1623 H. Cockeram Eng. Dict. Continent, chaste [1626 sober]. 1882 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon Continent..practising continence. in extended use.1587 A. Fleming et al. Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) III. 520/2 The shamefull villanie..was such, as honest eares would be ashamed to heare, and continent toongs to speake thereof. †3. a. Restraining, restrictive. Obsolete.Both quots. may be in sense 2; at least there is apparently a play on that sense. ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > restraint or restraining > restriction or limitation > [adjective] restraintive1526 limitative1530 circumscribing1571 restrictive1580 continent1598 restricting1606 confininga1616 contractive1624 strait-lacing1636 limiting1656 cohibitive1668 contracting1765 limitary1822 restrictionary1828 the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > quality of being special or restricted in application > quality of being restricted or limited > [adjective] > restricting or limiting narroweOE restraintive1526 limitative1530 circumscribing1571 restrictive1580 restraining1597 continent1598 restricting1606 confininga1616 contractive1624 strait-lacing1636 limiting1656 cohibitive1668 contracting1765 restrictory1776 limitary1822 restrictionary1828 scopeless1882 1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost i. i. 252 Contrary to thy established proclaymed Edict and continent Cannon. View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) iv. iii. 65 My Desire All continent Impediments would ore-beare That did oppose my will. View more context for this quotation b. Holding in, keeping back, retentive of. rare. ΚΠ 1841 T. Carlyle On Heroes vi. 363 I am continent of my thought hitherto. 4. Containing; capable of containing, capacious. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > space > [adjective] > roomy > capacious capable1594 wide-side1606 captiousa1616 generous1615 capacious1656 spacious1819 continent1856 the world > space > relative position > condition of being internal > containing or having within > [adjective] > able to hold or contain capable1571 capacious1614 continent1856 1579 T. North tr. Plutarch Liues 340 A Cylinder..containing a massie Sphære, with an inscription of the proportion, wherof the continent excedeth the thing conteined. 1605 F. Bacon Of Aduancem. Learning i. sig. B1 If there be no fulnesse, then is the Continent greater, than the Content. View more context for this quotation] 1856 S. T. Dobell Eng. in Time of War 96 The round Of the dull continent flesh. 1867 R. C. Trench Study of Words (ed. 12) vii Old vessels..continent of the new life. 1870 Pall Mall Gaz. 9 Aug. 12 Fashion..is as continent as the Black-hole in Calcutta. 5. Medicine. Having normal voluntary control over one's excretory functions. Opposed to incontinent adj.¹ 3. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > organs of excretion > defecation or urination > [adjective] > control of continent1941 1941 Amer. Jrnl. Obstetr. & Gynecol. 41 1051 Two patients are now continent. 1958 Jrnl. Urol. 80 344/1 The dogs..were perfectly continent between voidings even during running and jumping. 1979 Urologia Internat. XXXIV. 172 No signs of a stress incontinence could be objectified in the women of group II, even though, according to their own statements, they were not completely continent. II. [ < Latin continēre (intransitive) to hold together, be continuous.] †6. Holding or hanging together in space. a. Cohering, continuous, or uninterrupted in itself. continent land n. land extending connectedly or continuously over a large space: see continent n. 3, 4. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > tract > [noun] > continuous continent land1530 continent1559 continue1630 the world > the earth > land > tract > [adjective] > continuous continent1530 continented1654 1530 tr. Caesar Commentaryes xiii. 18 Cesar before entendyd to ly that winter tyme in contynent land. 1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde f. 310 Affirmynge that those landes are from thense continent and greate. 1569 R. Grafton Chron. I. 36 The mayne and continent land of the whole worlde. 1648 T. Gage Eng.-Amer. (1655) xii. 55 Being the same continued continent land. †b. Connected to or with, continuous with. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > space > extension in space > [adjective] > without a break > forming continuous extent with continual1578 continenta1593 continuous1693 the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > fact or action of being joined or joining > fact or action of being connected or connecting > [adjective] > connected continuously to or with continuate1555 continual1578 continenta1593 contigual1610 continuous1693 a1593 C. Marlowe Tragicall Hist. Faustus (1604) sig. B2^v Ile ioyne the hils that binde the Affricke shore, And make that land continent to Spaine. 1605 R. Verstegan Restit. Decayed Intelligence iv. 88 It is shewed to haue bin continent or firme-land with Gallia. a1613 E. Brerewood Enq. Langs. & Relig. (1614) xiii. 97 Those parts of Asia and America, are continent one with the other. 1614 W. Raleigh Hist. World i. v. vi. §7. 746 These [bridges] were couered with plankes and turfe; that they might seeme continent with the ground. 1693 J. Ray Three Physico-theol. Disc. (ed. 2) ii. v. 165 Great Britain, was anciently Continent to Gaule. 7. Continuous in duration; not intermittent. (Old Medicine and Physiology.) †a. continent fever n. see quots. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > fever > [noun] > continuous fever continuec1500 synochus1625 continent fever1684 continued fever1778 synocha1801 1684 tr. T. Bonet Guide Pract. Physician vi. 158 Galen..cures Continent and Continual fevers onely by bleeding. 1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Continent Feaver, is that which performs its Course without any Intermission, or Abatement. 1778 W. Cullen First Lines Pract. Physic (ed. 2) I. i. i. §28 A Continent Fever. †b. continent cause [ < modern Latin causa continens, French cause continente] : see quots. 1706, 1753. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > production of disease > [noun] > cause of disease conjunct causec1400 continent cause1605 procatarctic1666 procatarxis1681 germ1700 predisponent1771 the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > characteristics > [adjective] > chronic rooteda1398 confirmed1398 continual1528 inveterate?1541 veterated1547 chronic1601 chronical1604 continent cause1605 continuatea1616 radicated1631 radicate1720 settled1811 1605 F. Bacon Of Aduancem. Learning ii. sig. Ll1^v In that, is the Cause Continent of many diseases. View more context for this quotation 1656 J. Smith Compl. Pract. Physick 95 The continent cause is evacuated by purging. 1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Continent Cause of a Distemper, is that on which the Disease depends so immediately, that it continues so long as that remains, and ceases when the said Cause is remov'd. 1707 J. Floyer Physician's Pulse-watch 53 The continent causes of the Pulse are the strength of the Spirits, and the irritation of the Blood. 1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. at Cause Continent, conjunct, or proximate Cause, that principle in the body which immediately adheres to the disease, and which being present, the disease is also present. 8. as adv. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > moderation in sensuous gratification > [adverb] > abstinently continent1536 continently1554 abstinently1572 1536 Prymer Salysbery Use (STC 15992) f. cxlv And yet I loue hym contynent My fayth in hym is not myspent. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1494adj.c1384
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