Definition of Continent

Con´ti`nent
a.1.Serving to restrain or limit; restraining; opposing.
2.Exercising restraint as to the indulgence of desires or passions; temperate; moderate.
Have a continent forbearance till the speed of his rage goes slower.
3.Abstaining from sexual intercourse; exercising restraint upon the sexual appetite; esp., abstaining from illicit sexual intercourse; chaste.
My past life
Hath been as continent, as chaste, as true,
As I am now unhappy.
4.Not interrupted; connected; continuous; as, a continent fever.
The northeast part of Asia is, if not continent with the west side of America, yet certainly it is the least disoined by sea of all that coast.
- Berrewood.
n.1.That which contains anything; a receptacle.
The smaller continent which we call a pipkin.
- Bp. Kennet.
2.(Phys. Geog.) 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.
The Continent
the main land of Europe, as distinguished from the islands, especially from England.


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