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Of or pertaining to a continent.

A transmission arrangement in which the longitudinal crank shaft drives the rear wheels through a clutch, change-speed gear, countershaft, and two parallel side chains, in order.

A broad ice sheet resting on a plain or plateau and spreading outward from a central névé, or region of accumulation.

A method of pronouncing Latin and Greek in which the vowels have their more familiar Continental values, as in German and Italian, the consonants being pronounced mostly as in English. The stricter form of this method of pronouncing Latin approaches the Roman, the modified form the English, pronunciation. The Continent…

The system of commercial blockade aiming to exclude England from commerce with the Continent instituted by the Berlin decree, which Napoleon I. issued from Berlin Nov. 21, 1806, declaring the British Isles to be in a state of blockade, and British subjects, property, and merchandise subject to capture, and excluding Br…

In a continent manner; chastely; moderately; temperately.

See Contingency.

Union or connection; the state of touching or contact. "Point of contingency." J. Gregory.

t certain, to occur; incidental; casual. Weighing so much actual crime against so much contingent advantage. Burke.

In a contingent manner; without design or foresight; accidentally.

The state of being contingent; fortuitousness.

Capable of being continued [R.]

Proceeding without interruption or cesstaion; continuous; unceasing; lasting; abiding. He that is of a merry heart hath a continual feast. Prov. xv. 15.

Without cessation; unceasingly; continuously; as, the current flows continually. Why do not all animals continually increase in bigness Bentley.

bits, abode, etc.; perseverance; constancy; duration; stay. Great plagues, and of long continuence. Deut. xxviii. 59. Patient continuance i well-doing. Rom. ii. 7.

Continuing; prolonged; sustained; as, a continuant sound. -- n.

[R.] We are of Him and in Him, even as though our very flesh and bones should be made continuate with his. Hooker.

That act or state of continuing; the state of being continued; uninterrupted extension or succession; prolongation; propagation. Preventing the continuation of the royal line. Macaulay.

A term or expression denoting continuance. [R.] To these may be added continuatives; as, Rome remains to this day; which includes, at least, two propositions, viz., Rome was, and Rome is. I. Watts.

One who, or that which, continues; esp., one who continues a series or a work; a continuer. Sir T. Browne.