continuate

[ kuhn-tin-yoo-eyt ]

adjective

, Obsolete.

1. continuing; uninterrupted.

Other Words From

• con·tinu·ately adverb
• con·tinu·ateness noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of continuate¹

1375–1425; late Middle English < Latin continuātus, past participle of continuāre to continue; -ate ¹

Example Sentences

A most incomparable man; breathed as it were   To an untirable and continuate goodness:   He passes.

From Project Gutenberg

Per le continuate premure ed insistenze di questo egregio uffiziale postale Signor Rocca Francesco—che nulla lascia pel bene avviamento del nostro uffizio—presso 1' on.

From Project Gutenberg

Pardon me, Bianca: I haue this while with leaden thoughts beene prest, But I shall in a more continuate time Strike off this score of absence.

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A most incomparable man, breath'd as it were, To an vntyreable and continuate goodnesse: He passes Iew.

From Project Gutenberg

A most incomparable man; breath'd, as it were,     To an untirable and continuate goodness.

From Project Gutenberg