continuate
English
Etymology
From the past participle of Latin continuare.
Adjective
continuate (comparative more continuate, superlative most continuate)
- (obsolete) Continuous; uninterrupted; continued without break or interruption.
- 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC:, I.iii.1.2:
- Childish in some, terrible in others; to be derided in one, pitied or admired in another; to him by fits, to a second continuate: and howsoever these symptoms be common and incident to all persons, yet they are the most remarkable, frequent, furious, and violent in melancholy men.
- c. 1605-08, William Shakespeare, Timon of Athens, act 1, scene 1:
- An untirable and continuate goodness.
- 1594–1597, Richard Hooker, edited by J[ohn] S[penser], Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie, […], London: […] Will[iam] Stansby [for Matthew Lownes], published 1611, →OCLC, (please specify the page):
- We are of Him and in Him, even as though our very flesh and bones should be made continuate with his.
- (obsolete) Chronic; long-lasting; long-continued.
Synonyms
- (continuous): incessant, unbroken; see also Thesaurus:continuous
- (long-lasting): diuturnal, prolonged; see also Thesaurus:lasting
References
- John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “continuate”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.
- Webster's Third International Dictionary (1961)
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kon.ti.nuˈa.te/, /kon.tiˈnwa.te/[1]
- Rhymes: -ate
- Hyphenation: con‧ti‧nu‧à‧te, con‧ti‧nuà‧te
Verb
continuate
- inflection of continuare:
- second-person plural present indicative
- second-person plural imperative
References
- continuiamo, continuo in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
Latin
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