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Continuing   /kəntˈɪnjuɪŋ/   Listen
verb
Continue  v. t.  
1.
To unite; to connect. (Obs.) "the use of the navel is to continue the infant unto the mother."
2.
To protract or extend in duration; to preserve or persist in; to cease not. "O continue thy loving kindness unto them that know thee." "You know how to make yourself happy by only continuing such a life as you have been long accustomed to lead."
3.
To carry onward or extend; to prolong or produce; to add to or draw out in length. "A bridge of wond'rous length, From hell continued, reaching th' utmost orb of this frail world."
4.
To retain; to suffer or cause to remain; as, the trustees were continued; also, to suffer to live. "And how shall we continue Claudio."


Continue  v. i.  (past & past part. continued; pres. part. continuing)  
1.
To remain in a given place or condition; to remain in connection with; to abide; to stay. "Here to continue, and build up here A growing empire." "They continue with me now three days, and have nothing to eat."
2.
To be permanent or durable; to endure; to last. "But now thy kingdom shall not continue."
3.
To be steadfast or constant in any course; to persevere; to abide; to endure; to persist; to keep up or maintain a particular condition, course, or series of actions; as, the army continued to advance. "If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed."
Synonyms: To persevere; persist. See Persevere.





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"Continuing" Quotes from Famous Books



... that is, with the weakest brand of infection killing a rabbit in one day, and the next day with a two-day rabbit, that the person could receive this two-day inoculation without discomfort or danger because of the greater antagonism acquired by the preceding inoculation. Continuing the inoculations for fourteen days and making the strength of the infection stronger each day, at the end of the period it was found that the fourteenth inoculation, strong enough to produce the disease and kill a fresh subject, had, on account of the preceding ...
— Rural Hygiene • Henry N. Ogden
... family. Somerset examined them: they were unusually rich and numerous, beginning with cross-legged knights in hauberks of chain-mail, their ladies beside them in wimple and cover-chief, all more or less coated with the green mould and dirt of ages: and continuing with others of later date, in fine alabaster, gilded and coloured, some of them wearing round their necks the Yorkist collar of suns and roses, the livery of Edward the Fourth. In scrutinizing the tallest canopy over these he beheld Paula behind ...
— A Laodicean • Thomas Hardy
... Exposition was held in San Francisco. It contained many novel and beautiful features, and was attended by vast multitudes of people. Another notable exposition was held at San Diego, beginning in 1915 and continuing ...
— History of California • Helen Elliott Bandini
... importance that these natives have lost their fear for the Sangleys, and have declared against them. There are among them a number of arquebusiers and musketeers. They are all a people fitted for the work, and if captained by Spaniards they would be of much use. I have been continuing the permission which they before had from the previous governors to carry, in some cases, arquebuses and other arms; and as they have proved to be good and faithful, ...
— The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898: Volume XII, 1601-1604 • Edited by Blair and Robertson
... their advice, I will do all I possibly can to resist the rebels and save the English country, to the utmost of my little power, as God shall give me grace: ever trusting in your high Majesty to remember my poor estate; and that I have not the means of (p. 194) continuing here without the adoption of some other measures for my maintenance; and that the expenses are insupportable to me. And may you thus make an ordinance for me with speed, that I may do good service, to your honour and the preservation of my humble state. My dread sovereign lord and father, ...
— Henry of Monmouth, Volume 1 - Memoirs of Henry the Fifth • J. Endell Tyler


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