A holding on, or remaining in a particular state; permanence, as of condition, habits, abode, etc.; perseverance; constancy; duration; stay. Great plagues, and of long continuence. Deut. xxviii. 59. Patient continuance i well-doing. Rom. ii. 7.
Uninterrupted succession; continuation; constant renewell; perpetuation; propagation. The brute immedistely regards his own preservation or the continuance of his species. Addison.
A holding together; continuity. [Obs.] Bacon.
The adjournment of the proceedings in a cause from one day, or from one stated term of a court, to another.
The entry of such adjuornment and the grounds thereof on the record.
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