From the past participle of Latin continuare.

continuate (comparative more continuate, superlative most continuate)

1. (obsolete) Continuous; uninterrupted; continued without break or interruption.
   • 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 S, Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie, , London: Will Stansby , 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. (obsolete) Chronic; long-lasting; long-continued.

• (continuous): incessant, unbroken; see also Thesaurus:continuous
• (long-lasting): 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