英和和英

動詞

continuate (third-person singular simple present continuates, present participle continuating, simple past and past participle continuated) (obsolete)

1. To make continuous, to give continuity to.
2. To continue, perpetuate.

派生語

語源 2

First attested in 1471; inherited from 中期英語 continuat(e) (“continuous”, also used as the past participle of continuaten), see -ate (adjective-forming suffix) and Etymology 1.

形容詞

continuate (comparative more continuate, superlative most continuate) (obsolete)

1. Continuous; uninterrupted; continued without break or interruption.

   Synonyms: incessant, unbroken; see also Thesaurus:continuous

   • 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] 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.

2. Chronic; long-lasting; long-continued.

   Synonyms: diuturnal, prolonged; see also Thesaurus:lasting

派生語

参照

• 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)