continuate

present singular third person continuates · participle present continuating · participle past continuated · past continuated

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

comparative more continuate · superlative most continuate

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

   An untirable and continuate goodness.

   c. 1605-08, William Shakespeare, Timon of Athens, act 1, scene 1

   2 more examples

   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.

   1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition 1, section 3, member 1, subsection 2

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

   [1594], Richard Hooker, edited by J[ohn] S[penser], Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie, […], London: […] Iohn Windet, […], →OCLC, (please specify the page)

   Synonyms: incessant, unbroken, amaranthine, solid, ceaseless, constant, continual, continuous

2. obsoleteChronic; long-lasting; long-continued.

   Synonyms: diuturnal, prolonged, abiding, chronic, diuturnal, durable, standing, durative