GNU Collaborative International Dictionary of English

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   Continent , a. [L. continens, -entis, prop., p. pr. of continere to hold together, to repress: cf. F. continent. See Contain.]
    Serving to restrain or limit; restraining; opposing. [Obs.]
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   Exercising restraint as to the indulgence of desires or passions; temperate; moderate.
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   Have a continent forbearance till the speed of his rage goes slower.
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   Abstaining from sexual intercourse; exercising restraint upon the sexual appetite; esp., abstaining from illicit sexual intercourse; chaste.
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   My past life
   
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   Hath been as continent, as chaste, as true,
   
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   As I am now unhappy.
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   Not interrupted; connected; continuous; as, a continent fever. [Obs.]
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   The northeast part of Asia is, if not continent with the west side of America, yet certainly it is the least disoined by sea of all that coast.
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   Continent, n. [L. continens, prop., a holding together: cf. F. continent. See Continent, a.]
   That which contains anything; a receptacle. [Obs.]
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   The smaller continent which we call a pipkin.
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   One of the grand divisions of land on the globe; the main land; specifically (Phys. Geog.), a large body of land differing from an island, not merely in its size, but in its structure, which is that of a large basin bordered by mountain chains; as, the continent of North America.
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   ☞ The continents are now usually regarded as six in number: North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Africa, and Australia. But other large bodies of land are also reffered to as continents; as, the Antarctic continent; the continent of Greenland. Europe, Asia, and Africa are often grouped together as the Eastern Continent, and North and South America as the Western Continent.
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   The Continent, the main land of Europe, as distinguished from the islands, especially from England.
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   Encratite , n. [L. Encratitae, pl., fr. Gr.  self-disciplined;  in +  strength.] (Eccl. Hist.) One of a sect in the 2d century who abstained from marriage, wine, and animal food; -- called also Continent.
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