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Webster 1913 Edition
Continual
1.
Proceeding without interruption or cesstaion; continuous; unceasing; lasting; abiding.
He that is of a merry heart hath a
continual
feast. Prov. xv. 15.
2.
Occuring in steady and rapid succession; very frequent; often repeated.
The eye is deligh by a
continental
succession of small landscapes. W. Irwing.
Syn. – Constant; prepetual; incessant; unceasing; uninterrupted; unintermitted; continuous. See
Constant
, and Continuous
. Webster 1828 Edition
Continual
CONTINUAL
,Adj.
1.
Proceeding without interruption or cessation; unceasing; not intermitting; used in reference to time.He that hath a merry heart hath a continual feast. Proverbs 15.
I have great heaviness and continual sorrow of heart. Romans 9.
2.
Very frequent; often repeated; as, the charitable man has continual application for alms.3.
Continual fever, or continued fever, a fever that abates, but never entirely intermits, till it comes to a crisis; thus distinguished from remitting and intermitting fever.4.
Continual claim, in law, a claim that is made from time to time within every year or day, to land or other estate, the possession of which cannot be obtained without hazard.5.
Perpetual.