continuateとは 意味・読み方・使い方

形容詞

continuate (comparative more continuate, superlative most continuate)

1. (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 54573970:

     , 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, Shakespeare, William, Timon of Athens, act 1, scene 1:

     An untirable and continuate goodness.