continuate

Inherited from Middle English continuaten, from continuat(e) (“continuous”, also used as the past participle of continuaten) +‎ -en (verb-forming suffix), borrowed from Latin continuātus, perfect passive participle of continuō, see -ate (verb-forming suffix). Doublet of continue.

continuate (third-person singular simple present continuates, present participle continuating, simple past and past participle continuated) (obsolete)

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

First attested in 1471; inherited from Middle English continuat(e) (“continuous”, also used as the past participle of continuaten), see -ate (adjective-forming suffix) and Etymology 1.

continuate (comparative more continuate, superlative most continuate) (obsolete)

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

   Synonyms: incessant, unbroken; see also Thesaurus:continuous

   • 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC:
     , 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, William Shakespeare, Timon of Athens, act 1, scene 1:

     An untirable and continuate goodness.

   • 1594–1597, Richard Hooker, edited by J[ohn] S[penser], Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie, […], London: […] Will[iam] Stansby [for Matthew Lownes], published 1611, →OCLC, (please specify the page):

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

2. Chronic; long-lasting; long-continued.

   Synonyms: diuturnal, prolonged; see also Thesaurus:lasting

• John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “continuate”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.
• Webster's Third International Dictionary (1961)

• IPA^(key): /kon.ti.nuˈa.te/, /kon.tiˈnwa.te/^[1]
• Rhymes: -ate
• Hyphenation: con‧ti‧nu‧à‧te, con‧ti‧nuà‧te

continuate

1. inflection of continuare:
   1. second-person plural present indicative
   2. second-person plural imperative

continuate f pl

1. feminine plural of continuato

continuāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of continuō

continuate

1. second-person singular voseo imperative of continuar combined with te