Adjective

(en adjective)

(dated) Prolonged; unstopped.

* 1797 , , J. S. Barr (editor and translator), Barr's Buffon: Buffon's Natural Hi?tory , page 20,

and for the pronunciation of F , a more continued ?ound is nece??ary than for that of any of the con?onants.

* 1819 [1736], (preface), The Analogy of Religion, Natural and Revealed, to the Constitution and Course of Nature , 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 , page 57,

Instead of becoming more continued , intermittents sometimes become less so, which is always favourable.

Uninterrupted.

Adjective

(en adjective)

Unchanged through time or space; permanent.

Consistently recurring over time; persistent.

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Steady in purpose, action, feeling, etc.

* Sir (Philip Sidney) (1554-1586)

Both loving one fair maid, they yet remained constant friends.

* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)

I am constant to my purposes.

* (John Dryden) (1631-1700)

His gifts, his constant courtship, nothing gained.

Firm; solid; not fluid.

* (Robert Boyle) (1627-1691)

Ifyou mix them, you may turn these two fluid liquors into a constant body.

(obsolete) Consistent; logical.

* Shakespeare, Twelfth Night IV.ii

I am no more mad than you are: make the trial of it with any constant question.