Continuities :: Continuities (pl. ) of Continuit.

Continuity :: Continuity (n.) the state of being continuous; uninterupted connection or succession; close union of parts; cohesion; as, the continuity of fibers..

Continuo :: Continuo (n.) Basso continuo, or continued bass..

Continuous :: Continuous (a.) Without break, cessation, or interruption; without intervening space or time; uninterrupted; unbroken; continual; unceasing; constant; continued; protracted; extended; as, a continuous line of railroad; a continuous current of electricity..

Continuous :: Continuous (a.) Not deviating or varying from uninformity; not interrupted; not joined or articulated.

Continuously :: Continuously (adv.) In a continuous maner; without interruption.

Discontinuable :: Discontinuable (a.) Admitting of being discontinued.

Discontinuance :: Discontinuance (n.) The act of discontinuing, or the state of being discontinued; want of continued connection or continuity; breaking off; cessation; interruption; as, a discontinuance of conversation or intercourse; discontinuance of a highway or of travel..

Discontinuance :: Discontinuance (n.) A breaking off or interruption of an estate, which happened when an alienation was made by a tenant in tail, or other tenant, seized in right of another, of a larger estate than the tenant was entitled to, whereby the party ousted or injured was driven to his real action, and could not enter. This effect of such alienation is now obviated by statute in both England and the United States..

Discontinuance :: Discontinuance (n.) The termination of an action in practice by the voluntary act of the plaintiff; an entry on the record that the plaintiff discontinues his action.

Discontinuance :: Discontinuance (n.) That technical interruption of the proceedings in pleading in an action, which follows where a defendant does not answer the whole of the plaintiff's declaration, and the plaintiff omits to take judgment for the part unanswered..

Discontinuation :: Discontinuation (n.) Breach or interruption of continuity; separation of parts in a connected series; discontinuance.

Discontinue :: Discontinue (v. t.) To interrupt the continuance of; to intermit, as a practice or habit; to put an end to; to cause to cease; to cease using, to stop; to leave off..

Discontinue :: Discontinue (v. i.) To lose continuity or cohesion of parts; to be disrupted or broken off.

Discontinue :: Discontinue (v. i.) To be separated or severed; to part.

Discontinued :: Discontinued (imp. & p. p.) of Discontinu.

Discontinuee :: Discontinuee (n.) One whose possession of an estate is broken off, or discontinued; one whose estate is subject to discontinuance..

Discontinuer :: Discontinuer (n.) One who discontinues, or breaks off or away from; an absentee..

Discontinuing :: Discontinuing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Discontinu.

Discontinuity :: Discontinuity (n.) Want of continuity or cohesion; disunion of parts.

Discontinuor :: Discontinuor (n.) One who deprives another of the possession of an estate by discontinuance. See Discontinuance, 2..

Discontinuous :: Discontinuous (a.) Not continuous; interrupted; broken off.

Discontinuous :: Discontinuous (a.) Exhibiting a dissolution of continuity; gaping.

Dracontine :: Dracontine (a.) Belonging to a dragon.

Incontinence :: Incontinence (n.) Alt. of Incontinenc.

Incontinency :: Incontinency (n.) Incapacity to hold; hence, incapacity to hold back or restrain; the quality or state of being incontinent; want of continence; failure to restrain the passions or appetites; indulgence of lust; lewdness..

Incontinency :: Incontinency (n.) The inability of any of the animal organs to restrain the natural evacuations, so that the discharges are involuntary; as, incontinence of urine..

Incontinent :: Incontinent (a.) Not continent; uncontrolled; not restraining the passions or appetites, particularly the sexual appetite; indulging unlawful lust; unchaste; lewd..

Incontinent :: Incontinent (a.) Unable to restrain natural evacuations.

Incontinent :: Incontinent (n.) One who is unchaste.

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