Ensued vs Continued - What's the difference?
ensued | continued |
(ensue)
(obsolete) To follow (a leader, inclination etc.).
* 1596 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , IV.ii:
* Golding
*1603 , (John Florio), translating Michel de Montaigne, Essays , III.11:
*:Oh how many changes are like to ensue this reformation!
(dated) Prolonged; unstopped.
* 1797 , , J. S. Barr (editor and translator), Barr's Buffon: Buffon's Natural Hi?tory ,
* 1819 [1736], (preface), The Analogy of Religion, Natural and Revealed, to the Constitution and Course of Nature ,
* 1820 , A. P. Wilson Philip, A Treatise on Fevers: Including the Various Species of Simple and Eruptive Fevers ,
Uninterrupted.
(continue)
As verbs the difference between ensued and continued
is that ensued is (ensue) while continued is (continue).As an adjective continued is
(dated) prolonged; unstopped.ensued
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*ensue
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(ensu)- to ripenesse of mans state they grew: / Then shewing forth signes of their fathers blood, / They loued armes, and knighthood did ensew , / Seeking aduentures [...].
- To ensue his example in doing the like mischief.
- Give three freshmen six bottles of wine, and hilarity will ensue .
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* *continued
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(en adjective)page 20,
- and for the pronunciation of F , a more continued ?ound is nece??ary than for that of any of the con?onants.
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.
page 57,
- Instead of becoming more continued , intermittents sometimes become less so, which is always favourable.