continuation
(kənˌtɪnjuːˈeɪʃən)
[a. F. continuation (-acion) (13th c.), ad. L. continuātiōnem, n. of action f. continuāre to continue.]
† 1. The action of continuing in any course of action; perseverance, persistency. Obs.
| c 1374 Chaucer Boeth. iv. vi. 141 It shal be cause of continuacioun and exercisinge to good folk. 1483 Caxton Cato I j, By contynuacion and to studye strongly thou shalt mowe acquyre grete connyng and prudence. |
† 2. Continuity in space or of substance. Obs.
| 1615 Crooke Body of Man 202 These parastatæ do arise from the spirie bodden body..by continuation, and creepe obliquely backward and downward. 1650 Fuller Pisgah iii. ii. 382 This continuation of the Kings to Gods House, shewed the mutuall intercourse which ought to be betwixt Policy and Piety. 1726 Leoni Designs Pref. 4 a, Such Timbers interrupt the continuation of the Wall. |
3. Remaining or going on in a state; continuous existence or operation; continuance; prolongation.
| 1469 Sc. Acts Jas. III, §38 The court of Parliament..or sic like courtis, that has continuacione. 1654 Cokaine Dianea i. 21 The comliness of her countenance, the continuation of seeing her, would have subdued the obduratenesse of any heart. a 1704 T. Brown Praise Poverty Wks. 1730 I. 89 The continuation of weakness. 1704 Hearne Duct. Hist. (1714) I. 400 They let Water run out of a small Orifice from one Vessel into another, with a continuation till the same Star came again to the same place. 1862 Dana Man. Geol., Life 251 The..continuation of a portion of the Niagara life beyond the termination of the [geological] period. |
† 4. Abiding or remaining in place, residence, existence, etc. Obs.
| 1664 Power Exp. Philos. III. 162 Comets..whose first rise, continuation and disappearance may have been made in six moneths time. a 1673 T. Horton Serm. on Ps. cxxxiii. 1 To Dwell..a word of Residence and Abode and Continuation. |
5. The causing of anything to continue or go on; the continued maintenance of a condition or repetition of an action; the resumption of any interrupted action or course; the carrying on further of the story or discussion in a book.
| 1586 Thynne in Holinshed Chron. II. 464/2 The historie..half printed before I set pen to paper to enter into the augmentation or continuation of anie of them. 1603 Knolles Hist. Turks (1638) 292 A decree made for the continuation of the league. 1634 W. Tirwhyt Balzac's Lett. 196, I am forced to defer the continuation of this discourse till another time. 1655 Fuller Ch. Hist. ix. vi. §39 The English Benedictines..began to bestirr themselves, about the continuation of their Order. 1709 Strype Ann. Ref. I. xxvii. 316 They [Convocation] met sometimes in the Chapter House of S. Paul's..and sometimes by continuation at King Henry VII's Chapel. 1768 Sterne Sent. Journ., The Pulse, Any one may do a casual act of good-nature; but a continuation of them shews it is a part of the temperature. |
6. Sc. Law. = continuance 2; adjournment, prorogation.
| 1861 W. Bell Dict. Law Scot. 225 (heading) Continuation of the Diet. Ibid. 285 In a criminal prosecution..the continuation must be to another day certain, for the diet cannot be continued indefinitely, or sine die. |
† 7. Math. A process in Fluxions equivalent to integration by parts. Obs.
| 1750 Phil. Trans. XLVII. iv. 21 The Law of continuation..is exceedingly hard..this way to be discovered. 1786 Ibid. LXXVI. 441 The utility of finding fluents by continuation was manifest to Sir Isaac Newton. |
8. Stock Exchange. The carrying over of an account till next settling-day: see contango n.
| 1813 R. Hamilton Nation. Debt in Penny Cycl. XXIII. 72/1 Sometimes, instead of closing the account on the settling day, the stock is carried on to a future day on such terms as the parties agree on. This is called a continuation. 1851 Illustr. Lond. News 46 At about 1/4 per cent. ‘continuation’. 1887 Daily News 13 July 2/2 In English railway stocks..the rates of continuation were moderate. |
9. a. concr. That by which anything is continued; an addition continuing something already in existence or under notice.
| 1580 Hollyband Treas. Fr. Tong, Teneur, suite, ou continuacion, the tenour or continuation. 1638 in Knolles' Hist. Turks To Rdr., To joyne vnto my former History a Continuation for some few yeares. 1671 Grew Anat. Plants i. vi. §2 The Pilling is but the Continuation of the utmost part of the Barque. a 1711 Ken Hymns Evang. Poet. Wks. 1721 I. 181 His whole Course Is but Continuation of the Source. 1841 Elphinstone Hist. Ind. I. 443 Where it is crossed by the continuation of Mount Imaus. 1875 Jowett Plato (ed. 2) IV. 18 The Philebus..is supposed to be the continuation of a previous discussion. |
b. Hence continuation of days; spec. in Sc. Law: see quot. 1861.
| 1598 Hakluyt Voy. I. 165 Vpon the first day of the moneth of May..with the continuation of the dayis following. 1693 Stair Inst. iv. ii. §1 All points of process before them are with continuation of days. 1861 W. Bell Dict. Law Scotl. s.v., The summons in a civil process authorizes the defender to be cited to appear on a certain day, ‘with continuation of days’, and the summons may be called in Court, either on the day named, or within year and day of compearance, unless it be forced on by protestation. |
10. Gaiters continuous with ‘shorts’ or knee-breeches, as worn by bishops, deans, etc. Hence in mod. slang, trousers, as a continuation of the waistcoat.
| 1825 Hone Every-day Bk. I. 1184 The devil [was] in a red..vest, red ‘continuations’. 1836–9 Dickens Sk. Boz, Gt. Winglebury Duel (D.), A sleek man..in drab shorts and continuations, black coat, neck-cloth and gloves. 1858 R. S. Surtees Ask Mamma lxviii. 305 Straight good legs, well set off with..kerseymere shorts, and continuations to match. 1883 W. C. Russell Jack's Courtship in Longm. Mag. III. 18 For fear of spilling it over what a tailor would call my continuations. |
11. Comb., as continuation bill; continuation-day = contango-day; continuation-school, one in which the education of the elementary school is continued to a more advanced age (see also day continuation school s.v. day n. 24); so continuation class, continuation course, continuation education, continuation schooling, continuation-teaching.
| 1837 Central Soc. of Education: First Publication 400 [In Switzerland]..boys are compelled to attend the continuation-schools until they have reached their seventeenth year. 1859 Helps Friends in C. Ser. ii. II. ix. 177 Every year there are more and more continuation bills, which is merely a fine name for work postponed. 1887 Peel City Guardian 11 June 2/1 Evening continuation schools and classes. 1887 Mundella in Pall Mall G. 15 Aug. 6/1 To make the education of the children thorough they must adopt the Continental system of continuation schools. 1888 Ibid. 10 Nov. 11/2 He held up as models the German ‘continuation’ schools, and suggested that compulsory evening classes for ‘continuation’ teaching would delight the working man. 1900 Westm. Gaz. 20 Dec. 3/2 Drill ought to form part of the continuation education. 1901 Rowntree Poverty 74 Attendance at the continuation classes..cannot make up for the loss resulting from the early age at which the children leave school to go to work. 1907 Westm. Gaz. 25 Sept. 2/1 Curtailing the period of the continuation courses from eighteen to eleven days. 1928 Britain's Industr. Future (Lib. Ind. Inq.) iv. Argt. 266 Part-time day continuation schooling up to sixteen years. |