continualadj.

/kənˈtɪnjuːəl/

Forms: Middle English continuel, continuell, continuele, continueel, ( contenuel, continewel, contynwel), Middle English–1500s contynuel, contynuell(e, contynual, contynuall, Middle English–1600s continuall, 1500s continualle, 1500s– continual.

Etymology: Middle English, < Old French continuel (12th cent.), < Latin continuus : see -al suffix¹.

a. Always going on, incessant, perpetual; i.e. continuing without any intermission, continuous (in time); or less strictly, repeated with brief intermissions, very frequent. (Of actions or states.)

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > duration > [adjective] > long-lasting or enduring

longeOE

longsomeeOE

long of lifeOE

lastinga1225

cleaving1340

continualc1340

dwellingc1380

long-livinga1382

everlastingc1384

long-duringa1387

long-lasting?a1400

long-liveda1400

broadc1400

permanable?c1422

perseverant?a1425

permanentc1425

perdurable?a1439

continuedc1440

abiding1448

unremoved1455

eternalc1460

long-continued1464

continuing1526

long-enduring1527

enduring1532

immortal1538

diuturn?1541

veterated1547

resiant?1567

stayinga1568

well-wearinga1568

substantive1575

pertinacious1578

extant1581

ceaseless1590

marble1596

of length1597

longeval1598

diuturnal1599

nine-lived1600

chronic1601

unexhausted1602

chronical1604

endurable1607

continuant1610

indeflourishing1610

aged1611

indurant1611

continuatea1616

perennious1628

seculara1631

undiscontinueda1631

continuated1632

untransitory1632

long-spun1633

momently1641

stative1643

outliving1645

constant1653

long-descended1660

voluminousa1661

perduring1664

perdurant1671

livelong1673

perennial1676

longeve1678

consequential1681

unquenched1703

lifelong1746

momentary1755

inveterate1780

stabile1797

persistent1826

unpassing1831

all-time1846

year-long1846

teak-built1847

lengthful1855

long-term1867

long haul1873

sticky1879

week-to-week1879

perenduring1883

long-range1885

longish1889

long-time1902

long run1904

long-life1915

the world > time > frequency > [adjective] > very frequent

continualc1340

uncountable1823

the world > action or operation > continuing > [adjective] > continuous or without stop or pause (of action)

ithanda1300

continualc1340

unstintingc1380

perpetuala1382

unfailinga1382

unceasing1382

everlastinga1398

restless?a1439

continuedc1440

running1492

incessant1532

uncessant1548

incessable1552

universal1561

never-ceasing1567

still1570

unpausing1585

ceaseless1590

uncessable1596

indesinent1601

uninterrupted1602

unceasable1604

Sabbathless1605

unceased1605

unintermissive1610

unstaying1616

constant1653

jugial1654

uninterrupted1657

stopless1660

uncheque1671

chronical1672

unarrested1733

well-sustained1743

uninterrupt1776

unsuspended1792

sustained1796

pauseless1820

unhalting1832

persistent1842

unresting1856

unbreaking1870

non-stop1915

the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > continuity or uninterruptedness > [adjective]

continualc1340

jointc1400

directa1513

unbroken1561

successive1586

continuate1601

uninterrupted1602

unintermitted1611

continued1628

concrete1651

constant1653

uninterrupted1657

unintermitting1661

solid1662

continuous1751

uninterrupt1776

unbroke1793

unintermittent1850

unbreathing1893

c1340 R. Rolle Prose Treat. 24 Gret excercyice of body and continuell trauaile of the spirit.

1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Rolls) VII. 5 Þerof is ȝit contynual strif betwene hem of York and of Caunturbury.

c1400 Mandeville's Trav. (Roxb.) xvii. 79 Grete calde and continuele frost.

a1425 (c1395) Bible (Wycliffite, L.V.) (Royal) (1850) Luke xi. 8 For his contynuel axyng he schal ryse, and ȝyue to hym.

1549 Bk. Common Prayer (STC 16267) Celebr. Holye Communion f. lxxxix Lord..let thy continual pitie clense and defende thy congregacion.

1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια 422 The cure of continuall yawning.

1711 E. Budgell Spectator No. 150. ⁋1 The continual Ridicule which his Habit and Dress afforded to the Beaus of Rome.

1869 J. Phillips Vesuvius iii. 58 Eleven months of disquiet..one almost continual eruption.

b. Regularly recurring; kept up at stated times or intervals without interruption of regularity; recurring every time. archaic.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > frequency > [adjective] > periodical or recurring at regular intervals

continualc1530

periodical1585

termly1594

clock-like1609

terminal1610

stated1611

regular1639

periodic1661

clockwork1679

recursive1766

clockwork-like1875

tidal1876

seasonal1880

c1530 A. Barclay Egloges ii. sig. L v One seruyce, of them [sc. dishes] contynuall Allayeth pleasour.

1546 Wycklyffes Wycket sig. A.ii^v [He] shall defyle the sanctuarye, and he shall take awaye the continuall sacrifyce.

1630 tr. G. Botero Relations Famous Kingdomes World (rev. ed.) 585 Continuall victory maketh leaders insolent, souldiers mutinous.

1862 J. Ruskin Munera Pulveris (1880) 36 The continual payment of the excess of value.

†c. continual claim n. Law Obsolete a claim formally reiterated within statutory intervals in order that it might not be deemed to be abandoned.

ΘΚΠ

society > law > administration of justice > court proceedings or procedure > action of courts in claims or grievances > claim at law > [noun] > type of claim

continual claim1528

counterclaim1784

condiction1818

1528–30 tr. T. Littleton Tenures (new ed.) f. xxxv^v In case a man be dysseysed and the dysseysy maketh contynuall clayme to the tenementes in the lyfe of the dysseysoure.

1628 E. Coke 1st Pt. Inst. Lawes Eng. 250.

1641 Rastell's Termes de la Ley (new ed.) f. 80 Continuall claime is where a man hath right to enter..and hee dare not enter for feare of death or beating, but approacheth as nigh as he dare, and maketh claime thereto within the yeare and day before the death of him that hath the Lands.

1670 T. Blount Νομο-λεξικον: Law-dict. Continual Claim, is a claim made from time to time, within every year and day, to land or other thing, which in some respect we cannot attain without danger.

1848 J. J. S. Wharton Law Lexicon 136/1 Continual claim, abolished by 3 & 4 Wm. IV, c. 27 §11.

†2. transferred. Of persons and things: That is always in some (specified) position, engaged in some (specified) action, etc.; continually existing or acting; constant, perpetual. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > continuing > [adjective] > continually engaged in some action

continual1462

constant1639

continuando1691

incessant1749

chronic1861

the world > time > change > absence of change, changelessness > lasting quality, permanence > [adjective] > lasting, continuous

endlessc888

perpetuala1382

unceasing1382

restless?c1425

biding1430

continual1462

remanent?a1475

incessant1532

uncessant1548

incessable1552

never-ceasing1567

still1570

ceaseless1590

indesinent1601

unceasable1604

unintermissive1610

constant1653

jugial1654

tarrying1654

insuccessive1678

perpetuative1785

1462 J. Russe in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) II. 276 Youre contynwal servaunt and bedeman.

1535 E. Harvel in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. ii. 115. II. 71 Mr. Pole is continual in writing of his work.

1611 Bible (King James) Num. iv. 7 The continual bread shalbe thereon.

1624 J. Smith Gen. Hist. Virginia i. 13 Our continuall Pilot mistaking Virginia for Cape Fear.

1630 tr. G. Botero Relations Famous Kingdomes World (rev. ed.) 585 At the charge to maintaine continuall companies.

a1864 N. Hawthorne Septimius Felton (1872) 95 Beating it down with the pressure of his continual feet.

†3. Of diseases: Chronic, not intermittent. Cf. continent adj. 7. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

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

1528–30 tr. T. Littleton Tenures (new ed.) f. x A great and contynuell infyrmyte.

1529 in Vicary's Anat. Bodie of Man (1888) App. xiv. 252 Withoute contynuell Diseases.

1695 W. W. Novum Lumen Chirurgicum Extinctum 25 A Fever either intermitting or continual.

1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Continual Feaver, is that which sometimes remits, or abates, but never perfectly intermits.

1725 N. Robinson New Theory of Physick 259 Of the Cure of simple, continual Fevers.

1751 R. Brookes Gen. Pract. Physic II. p. xl [Pulse] great and full [denotes] Continual Fever.

†4. Everlasting, permanent. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > duration > eternity or infinite duration > [adjective]

echec825

echelichc825

endlessc888

lastinga1225

everlastingc1225

perdurablec1275

perpetuala1325

unendeda1325

incorruptiblea1340

ay-lastingc1340

inlastingc1340

eternec1366

interminablec1374

unstanchablec1374

ever-duringa1382

eternalc1386

sempitern1390

never-failinga1400

sempiternal14..

ever-being?a1425

ever-durable?a1425

immarcescible?a1475

perennal?c1500

deathless1547

everlastable1548

incessant1557

unperishing1561

undeterminable1581

evera1586

unendlya1586

inexterminable1592

never-ending?1592

aeviternal1596

dateless1597

undecaying1599

entombless1601

perishless1605

ageless1609

continual1610

perpetuous1612

imperible1614

ne'er-endinga1616

out-date1623

undated1624

perennious1628

immortal1630

imperishable1648

birthless1651

fadeless1652

sempiternous1653

evergreen1655

intemporal1656

indefectible1659

inconclusible1660

unending1661

aeonian1664

unfading1665

sempervirent1668

amaranthal1674

ne'er-dying1693

perennial1717

timeless1742

indefeatablea1754

amaranthine1782

aeonial1800

unterminating1821

unevanescent1827

ay1845

forever1879

sempervirid1909

1610 J. Healey tr. St. Augustine Citie of God xii. xii. 452 Nothing that hath an extreame, is continuall.

†5.

a. Continuous in space or substance; unbroken, uninterrupted, having no interstices. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > extension in space > [adjective] > without a break

running1390

continuate1555

continual1570

perpetual1578

dead1597

continued1607

continuated1632

indistant1644

continuating1650

continuous1673

contiguousc1720

run1740

jointless1909

1570 H. Billingsley tr. Euclid Elements Geom. xi. f. 312 There are three kindes of continuall quantitie, a line, a superficies, and a solide or body.

1591 H. Savile tr. Tacitus Life Agricola in tr. Tacitus Ende of Nero: Fower Bks. Hist. 243 A deepe masse of continuall sea.

1662 J. Chandler tr. J. B. van Helmont Oriatrike 53 I conceive, that the earth in the beginning, was con-tinuall or holding together, and undivided.

1720 N. Dubois & G. Leoni tr. A. Palladio Architecture IV. ii. xxviii. 11 A continu'd embasement round a Temple.

†b. Continuous with something else; forming one connected whole; = continent adj. 6b. 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

1578 J. Banister Hist. Man v. f. 71 The guttes are to this ventricle continuall.

a1631 J. Donne Serm. (1959) IV. 351 They [sc. Faith and Reason] are not continuall, but they are contiguous.

1652 M. Nedham tr. J. Selden Of Dominion of Sea 86 The Provinces of Asia and Europe became in a civil sens, either continual or contiguous.

†c. Forming a continuous series, i.e. one whose constituents recur at regular intervals. continual proportion, continual proportionals (Mathematics): = continued adj. proportion, proportionals. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > continuity or uninterruptedness > [adjective] > forming an unbroken series

continual1557

sequent1609

connexed1614

connex1653

straight1971

the world > relative properties > number > ratio or proportion > [noun] > equal or constant > between adjacent terms

continual proportion1557

conjunct proportion1594

continual proportionals1753

continued proportion1796

continued proportionals1796

1557 R. Record Whetstone of Witte sig. Cii^v When the first nomber is referred to the seconde, and that seconde to the thirde [as 5 is to 15, so is 15 to 45]: the proportion is called continualle.

1597 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie v. lvii. 128 Christ Iesus..being by continuall degrees the finisher of our life.

1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. Continual proportionals, when..the first is to the second, as the second to the third, etc.

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单词	continual
释义	continualadj. /kənˈtɪnjuːəl/ Forms: Middle English continuel, continuell, continuele, continueel, ( contenuel, continewel, contynwel), Middle English–1500s contynuel, contynuell(e, contynual, contynuall, Middle English–1600s continuall, 1500s continualle, 1500s– continual. Etymology: Middle English, < Old French continuel (12th cent.), < Latin continuus : see -al suffix¹. 1. a. Always going on, incessant, perpetual; i.e. continuing without any intermission, continuous (in time); or less strictly, repeated with brief intermissions, very frequent. (Of actions or states.) ΘΚΠ the world > time > duration > [adjective] > long-lasting or enduring longeOE longsomeeOE long of lifeOE lastinga1225 cleaving1340 continualc1340 dwellingc1380 long-livinga1382 everlastingc1384 long-duringa1387 long-lasting?a1400 long-liveda1400 broadc1400 permanable?c1422 perseverant?a1425 permanentc1425 perdurable?a1439 continuedc1440 abiding1448 unremoved1455 eternalc1460 long-continued1464 continuing1526 long-enduring1527 enduring1532 immortal1538 diuturn?1541 veterated1547 resiant?1567 stayinga1568 well-wearinga1568 substantive1575 pertinacious1578 extant1581 ceaseless1590 marble1596 of length1597 longeval1598 diuturnal1599 nine-lived1600 chronic1601 unexhausted1602 chronical1604 endurable1607 continuant1610 indeflourishing1610 aged1611 indurant1611 continuatea1616 perennious1628 seculara1631 undiscontinueda1631 continuated1632 untransitory1632 long-spun1633 momently1641 stative1643 outliving1645 constant1653 long-descended1660 voluminousa1661 perduring1664 perdurant1671 livelong1673 perennial1676 longeve1678 consequential1681 unquenched1703 lifelong1746 momentary1755 inveterate1780 stabile1797 persistent1826 unpassing1831 all-time1846 year-long1846 teak-built1847 lengthful1855 long-term1867 long haul1873 sticky1879 week-to-week1879 perenduring1883 long-range1885 longish1889 long-time1902 long run1904 long-life1915 the world > time > frequency > [adjective] > very frequent continualc1340 uncountable1823 the world > action or operation > continuing > [adjective] > continuous or without stop or pause (of action) ithanda1300 continualc1340 unstintingc1380 perpetuala1382 unfailinga1382 unceasing1382 everlastinga1398 restless?a1439 continuedc1440 running1492 incessant1532 uncessant1548 incessable1552 universal1561 never-ceasing1567 still1570 unpausing1585 ceaseless1590 uncessable1596 indesinent1601 uninterrupted1602 unceasable1604 Sabbathless1605 unceased1605 unintermissive1610 unstaying1616 constant1653 jugial1654 uninterrupted1657 stopless1660 uncheque1671 chronical1672 unarrested1733 well-sustained1743 uninterrupt1776 unsuspended1792 sustained1796 pauseless1820 unhalting1832 persistent1842 unresting1856 unbreaking1870 non-stop1915 the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > continuity or uninterruptedness > [adjective] continualc1340 jointc1400 directa1513 unbroken1561 successive1586 continuate1601 uninterrupted1602 unintermitted1611 continued1628 concrete1651 constant1653 uninterrupted1657 unintermitting1661 solid1662 continuous1751 uninterrupt1776 unbroke1793 unintermittent1850 unbreathing1893 c1340 R. Rolle Prose Treat. 24 Gret excercyice of body and continuell trauaile of the spirit. 1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Rolls) VII. 5 Þerof is ȝit contynual strif betwene hem of York and of Caunturbury. c1400 Mandeville's Trav. (Roxb.) xvii. 79 Grete calde and continuele frost. a1425 (c1395) Bible (Wycliffite, L.V.) (Royal) (1850) Luke xi. 8 For his contynuel axyng he schal ryse, and ȝyue to hym. 1549 Bk. Common Prayer (STC 16267) Celebr. Holye Communion f. lxxxix Lord..let thy continual pitie clense and defende thy congregacion. 1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια 422 The cure of continuall yawning. 1711 E. Budgell Spectator No. 150. ⁋1 The continual Ridicule which his Habit and Dress afforded to the Beaus of Rome. 1869 J. Phillips Vesuvius iii. 58 Eleven months of disquiet..one almost continual eruption. b. Regularly recurring; kept up at stated times or intervals without interruption of regularity; recurring every time. archaic. ΘΚΠ the world > time > frequency > [adjective] > periodical or recurring at regular intervals continualc1530 periodical1585 termly1594 clock-like1609 terminal1610 stated1611 regular1639 periodic1661 clockwork1679 recursive1766 clockwork-like1875 tidal1876 seasonal1880 c1530 A. Barclay Egloges ii. sig. L v One seruyce, of them [sc. dishes] contynuall Allayeth pleasour. 1546 Wycklyffes Wycket sig. A.ii^v [He] shall defyle the sanctuarye, and he shall take awaye the continuall sacrifyce. 1630 tr. G. Botero Relations Famous Kingdomes World (rev. ed.) 585 Continuall victory maketh leaders insolent, souldiers mutinous. 1862 J. Ruskin Munera Pulveris (1880) 36 The continual payment of the excess of value. †c. continual claim n. Law Obsolete a claim formally reiterated within statutory intervals in order that it might not be deemed to be abandoned. ΘΚΠ society > law > administration of justice > court proceedings or procedure > action of courts in claims or grievances > claim at law > [noun] > type of claim continual claim1528 counterclaim1784 condiction1818 1528–30 tr. T. Littleton Tenures (new ed.) f. xxxv^v In case a man be dysseysed and the dysseysy maketh contynuall clayme to the tenementes in the lyfe of the dysseysoure. 1628 E. Coke 1st Pt. Inst. Lawes Eng. 250. 1641 Rastell's Termes de la Ley (new ed.) f. 80 Continuall claime is where a man hath right to enter..and hee dare not enter for feare of death or beating, but approacheth as nigh as he dare, and maketh claime thereto within the yeare and day before the death of him that hath the Lands. 1670 T. Blount Νομο-λεξικον: Law-dict. Continual Claim, is a claim made from time to time, within every year and day, to land or other thing, which in some respect we cannot attain without danger. 1848 J. J. S. Wharton Law Lexicon 136/1 Continual claim, abolished by 3 & 4 Wm. IV, c. 27 §11. †2. transferred. Of persons and things: That is always in some (specified) position, engaged in some (specified) action, etc.; continually existing or acting; constant, perpetual. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > continuing > [adjective] > continually engaged in some action continual1462 constant1639 continuando1691 incessant1749 chronic1861 the world > time > change > absence of change, changelessness > lasting quality, permanence > [adjective] > lasting, continuous endlessc888 perpetuala1382 unceasing1382 restless?c1425 biding1430 continual1462 remanent?a1475 incessant1532 uncessant1548 incessable1552 never-ceasing1567 still1570 ceaseless1590 indesinent1601 unceasable1604 unintermissive1610 constant1653 jugial1654 tarrying1654 insuccessive1678 perpetuative1785 1462 J. Russe in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) II. 276 Youre contynwal servaunt and bedeman. 1535 E. Harvel in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. ii. 115. II. 71 Mr. Pole is continual in writing of his work. 1611 Bible (King James) Num. iv. 7 The continual bread shalbe thereon. View more context for this quotation 1624 J. Smith Gen. Hist. Virginia i. 13 Our continuall Pilot mistaking Virginia for Cape Fear. 1630 tr. G. Botero Relations Famous Kingdomes World (rev. ed.) 585 At the charge to maintaine continuall companies. a1864 N. Hawthorne Septimius Felton (1872) 95 Beating it down with the pressure of his continual feet. †3. Of diseases: Chronic, not intermittent. Cf. continent adj. 7. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ 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 1528–30 tr. T. Littleton Tenures (new ed.) f. x A great and contynuell infyrmyte. 1529 in Vicary's Anat. Bodie of Man (1888) App. xiv. 252 Withoute contynuell Diseases. 1695 W. W. Novum Lumen Chirurgicum Extinctum 25 A Fever either intermitting or continual. 1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Continual Feaver, is that which sometimes remits, or abates, but never perfectly intermits. 1725 N. Robinson New Theory of Physick 259 Of the Cure of simple, continual Fevers. 1751 R. Brookes Gen. Pract. Physic II. p. xl [Pulse] great and full [denotes] Continual Fever. †4. Everlasting, permanent. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > time > duration > eternity or infinite duration > [adjective] echec825 echelichc825 endlessc888 lastinga1225 everlastingc1225 perdurablec1275 perpetuala1325 unendeda1325 incorruptiblea1340 ay-lastingc1340 inlastingc1340 eternec1366 interminablec1374 unstanchablec1374 ever-duringa1382 eternalc1386 sempitern1390 never-failinga1400 sempiternal14.. ever-being?a1425 ever-durable?a1425 immarcescible?a1475 perennal?c1500 deathless1547 everlastable1548 incessant1557 unperishing1561 undeterminable1581 evera1586 unendlya1586 inexterminable1592 never-ending?1592 aeviternal1596 dateless1597 undecaying1599 entombless1601 perishless1605 ageless1609 continual1610 perpetuous1612 imperible1614 ne'er-endinga1616 out-date1623 undated1624 perennious1628 immortal1630 imperishable1648 birthless1651 fadeless1652 sempiternous1653 evergreen1655 intemporal1656 indefectible1659 inconclusible1660 unending1661 aeonian1664 unfading1665 sempervirent1668 amaranthal1674 ne'er-dying1693 perennial1717 timeless1742 indefeatablea1754 amaranthine1782 aeonial1800 unterminating1821 unevanescent1827 ay1845 forever1879 sempervirid1909 1610 J. Healey tr. St. Augustine Citie of God xii. xii. 452 Nothing that hath an extreame, is continuall. †5. a. Continuous in space or substance; unbroken, uninterrupted, having no interstices. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > space > extension in space > [adjective] > without a break running1390 continuate1555 continual1570 perpetual1578 dead1597 continued1607 continuated1632 indistant1644 continuating1650 continuous1673 contiguousc1720 run1740 jointless1909 1570 H. Billingsley tr. Euclid Elements Geom. xi. f. 312 There are three kindes of continuall quantitie, a line, a superficies, and a solide or body. 1591 H. Savile tr. Tacitus Life Agricola in tr. Tacitus Ende of Nero: Fower Bks. Hist. 243 A deepe masse of continuall sea. 1662 J. Chandler tr. J. B. van Helmont Oriatrike 53 I conceive, that the earth in the beginning, was con-tinuall or holding together, and undivided. 1720 N. Dubois & G. Leoni tr. A. Palladio Architecture IV. ii. xxviii. 11 A continu'd embasement round a Temple. †b. Continuous with something else; forming one connected whole; = continent adj. 6b. 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 1578 J. Banister Hist. Man v. f. 71 The guttes are to this ventricle continuall. a1631 J. Donne Serm. (1959) IV. 351 They [sc. Faith and Reason] are not continuall, but they are contiguous. 1652 M. Nedham tr. J. Selden Of Dominion of Sea 86 The Provinces of Asia and Europe became in a civil sens, either continual or contiguous. †c. Forming a continuous series, i.e. one whose constituents recur at regular intervals. continual proportion, continual proportionals (Mathematics): = continued adj. proportion, proportionals. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > continuity or uninterruptedness > [adjective] > forming an unbroken series continual1557 sequent1609 connexed1614 connex1653 straight1971 the world > relative properties > number > ratio or proportion > [noun] > equal or constant > between adjacent terms continual proportion1557 conjunct proportion1594 continual proportionals1753 continued proportion1796 continued proportionals1796 1557 R. Record Whetstone of Witte sig. Cii^v When the first nomber is referred to the seconde, and that seconde to the thirde [as 5 is to 15, so is 15 to 45]: the proportion is called continualle. 1597 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie v. lvii. 128 Christ Iesus..being by continuall degrees the finisher of our life. 1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. Continual proportionals, when..the first is to the second, as the second to the third, etc. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.c1340
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