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fates all satisfied. Spenser. Of all other affections it [envy] is the most importune and continual. Bacon.

Unceasing; continual. [Obs.] Shelton. -- In*ces"sa*bly, adv. [Obs.]

Continuing or following without interruption; unceasing; unitermitted; uninterrupted; continual; as, incessant clamors; incessant pain, etc. Against the castle gate, . . . Which with incessant force and endless hate, They batter'd day and night and entrance did await. Spenser.

Unceasingly; continually. Shak.

Arable and manured land kept continually under crop; -- distinguished from outfield. [Scotland] Jamieson.

A complex nitrogenous substance, which, by Hermann's hypothesis, is continually decomposed and reproduced in the muscles, during their life.

Having temporary cessations; not continual; intermittent. "Intermissive miseries." Shak. "Intermissive wars." Howell.

The act of interpelling or interrupting; interruption. "Continual interpellations." Bp. Hall.

in the king's palace, and removing with his household in those royal progresses which he continually made. Blackstone.

st or opinions; collision; discord; debate; slight disagreement. And yet his peace is but continual jar. Spenser. Cease, cease these jars, and rest your minds in peace. Shak.

A determinate quantity, to which a variable one continually approaches, and may differ from it by less than any given difference, but to which, under the law of variation, the variable can never become exactly equivalent. Elastic limit. See under Elastic. -- Prison limits, a definite, extent of space in or around a pr…

Issuing continually from the earth; running; flowing; as, a living spring; -- opposed to stagnant.

l curve such that radii drawn from its pole or eye at equal angles with each other are in continual proportion. See Spiral.

Given to continual talking; talkative; garrulous. Loquacious, brawling, ever in the wrong. Dryden.

The habit or practice of talking continually or excessively; inclination to talk too much; talkativeness; garrulity. Too great loquacity and too great taciturnity by fits. Arbuthnot.

em, would grow cold and freeze, and become inactive masses. Sir I. Newton. A deep mass of continual sea is slower stirred To rage. Savile.

ivy never sere, I come to pluck your berries harsh and crude. Milton. More and more, with continual increase. "Amon trespassed more and more." 2 Chron. xxxiii. 23. -- The more, to a greater degree; by an added quantity; for a reason already specified. -- The more -- the more, by how much more -- by so much more. "The…

State of being under observation. [Obs.] Small matters . . . continually in use and in note. Bacon.

Chaucer. -- At one, in agreement or concord. See At one, in the Vocab. -- Ever in one, continually; perpetually; always. [Obs.] Chaucer. -- In one, in union; in a single whole. -- One and one, One by one, singly; one at a time; one after another."Raising one by one the suppliant crew." Dryden.

In a perpetual manner; constantly; continually. The Bible and Common Prayer Book in the vulgar tongue, being perpetually read in churches, have proved a kind of standard for language. Swift.