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Webster's Dictionary

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(1):

(a.) Not interrupted; connected; continuous; as, a continent fever.

(2):

(a.) Exercising restraint as to the indulgence of desires or passions; temperate; moderate.

(3):

(a.) Serving to restrain or limit; restraining; opposing.

(4):

(a.) Abstaining from sexual intercourse; exercising restraint upon the sexual appetite; esp., abstaining from illicit sexual intercourse; chaste.

(5):

(a.) That which contains anything; a receptacle.

(6):

(a.) 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.

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Continent'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​c/continent.html. 1828.
 
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