Refraining from unlawful sexual commerce, or moderate in the indulgence of lawful pleasure; chaste.

Restrained; moderate; temperate. Have a continent forbearance.

Opposing; restraining.

Continuous; connected; not interrupted. The North East part of Asia, if not continent with America- . A continent fever. More generally we now say a continued fever.

In geography, a great extent of land, not disjoined or interrupted by a sea; a connected tract of land of great extent; as the Eastern and Western continent. It differs from an isle only in extent. New Holland may be denominated a continent. Britain is called a continent, as opposed to the isle of Anglesey. In Spenser, continent is use for ground in general.

That which contains any thing.