Continued
Pronunciation
Full definition of continued
Adjective
- (dated) Prolonged; unstopped.
- 1797, Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, J. S. Barr (editor and translator), Barr's Buffon: Buffon's Natural Hiſtory, most+continued%22&hl=en&ei=I6-GTrL_EsL2mAXB87Ul&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CDAQ6AEwATgK#v=onepage&q=%22more|most%20continued%22&f=false page 20,...and for the pronunciation of F, a more continued ſound is neceſſary than for that of any of the conſonants.
- 1819 1736, Joseph Butler, (biography of the author), (preface), The Analogy of Religion, Natural and Revealed, to the Constitution and Course of Nature, most+continued%22&hl=en&ei=I6-GTrL_EsL2mAXB87Ul&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=5&ved=0CD4Q6AEwBDgK#v=onepage&q=%22more|most%20continued%22&f=false page 93,But when the exercise of the virtuous principle is more continued, oftener repeated, and more intense, as it must be in circumstances of danger, temptation, and difficulty of any kind and any degree, this tendency is increased proportionably, and a more confirmed habit is the consequence.
- 1820, A. P. Wilson Philip, A Treatise on Fevers: Including the Various Species of Simple and Eruptive Fevers, most+continued%22&hl=en&ei=o9GGTpymOuLymAXL3NXRCw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=7&ved=0CEUQ6AEwBjgU#v=onepage&q=%22more|most%20continued%22&f=false page 57,Instead of becoming more continued, intermittents sometimes become less so, which is always favourable.
