Definition of continuance

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Continuance (n.) The adjournment of the proceedings in a cause from one day, or from one stated term of a court, to another..

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Short-lived :: Short-lived (a.) Not living or lasting long; being of short continuance; as, a short-lived race of beings; short-lived pleasure; short-lived passion..
Perduration :: Perduration (n.) Long continuance.
Endurance :: Endurance (n.) A state or quality of lasting or duration; lastingness; continuance.
Cessation :: Cessation (n.) A ceasing or discontinuance, as of action, whether temporary or final; a stop; as, a cessation of the war..
Continuance :: Continuance (n.) The entry of such adjournment and the grounds thereof on the record.
Prosecution :: Prosecution (n.) The institution, or commencement, and continuance of a criminal suit; the process of exhibiting formal charges against an offender before a legal tribunal, and pursuing them to final judgment on behalf of the state or government, as by indictment or information..
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..
Inveterate :: Inveterate (v. t.) To fix and settle by long continuance.
Time-honored :: Time-honored (a.) Honored for a long time; venerable, and worthy of honor, by reason of antiquity, or long continuance..
Permanency :: Permanency (n.) The quality or state of being permanent; continuance in the same state or place; duration; fixedness; as, the permanence of institutions; the permanence of nature..
Pendency :: Pendency (n.) The quality or state of being undecided, or in continuance; suspense; as, the pendency of a suit..
Remanency :: Remanency (a.) The state of being remanent; continuance; permanence.
Tedious :: Tedious (a.) Involving tedium; tiresome from continuance, prolixity, slowness, or the like; wearisome..
Yet :: Yet (adv.) At the same time; by continuance from a former state; still.
Miscontinuance :: Miscontinuance (n.) Discontinuance; also, continuance by undue process..
On :: On (prep.) In continuance; without interruption or ceasing; as, sleep on, take your ease; say on; sing on..
Desire :: Desire (v. t.) The natural longing that is excited by the enjoyment or the thought of any good, and impels to action or effort its continuance or possession; an eager wish to obtain or enjoy..
Sequent :: Sequent (a.) Following; succeeding; in continuance.
Discontinuor :: Discontinuor (n.) One who deprives another of the possession of an estate by discontinuance. See Discontinuance, 2..
Live :: Live (v. i.) To be alive; to have life; to have, as an animal or a plant, the capacity of assimilating matter as food, and to be dependent on such assimilation for a continuance of existence; as, animals and plants that live to a great age are long in reaching maturity..
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