CPage 579
- English Word Continent Definition Serving to restrain or limit; restraining; opposing.
- English Word Continent Definition Exercising restraint as to the indulgence of desires or passions; temperate; moderate.
- English Word Continent Definition Abstaining from sexual intercourse; exercising restraint upon the sexual appetite; esp., abstaining from illicit sexual intercourse; chaste.
- English Word Continent Definition Not interrupted; connected; continuous; as, a continent fever.
- English Word Continent Definition That which contains anything; a receptacle.
- English Word Continent Definition 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.
- English Word Continental Definition Of or pertaining to a continent.
- English Word Continental Definition Of or pertaining to the main land of Europe, in distinction from the adjacent islands, especially England; as, a continental tour; a continental coalition.
- English Word Continental Definition Of or pertaining to the confederated colonies collectively, in the time of the Revolutionary War; as, Continental money.
- English Word Continental Definition A soldier in the Continental army, or a piece of the Continental currency. See Continental, a., 3.
- English Word Continently Definition In a continent manner; chastely; moderately; temperately.
- English Word Contingence Definition See Contingency.
- English Word Contingencies Definition of Contingency
- English Word Contingency Definition Union or connection; the state of touching or contact.
- English Word Contingency Definition The quality or state of being contingent or casual; the possibility of coming to pass.
- English Word Contingency Definition An event which may or may not occur; that which is possible or probable; a fortuitous event; a chance.
- English Word Contingency Definition An adjunct or accessory.
- English Word Contingency Definition A certain possible event that may or may not happen, by which, when happening, some particular title may be affected.
- English Word Contingent Definition Possible, or liable, but not certain, to occur; incidental; casual.
- English Word Contingent Definition Dependent on that which is undetermined or unknown; as, the success of his undertaking is contingent upon events which he can not control.