ppl. a. Diligently carried on or maintained.

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1534.  More, Comf. agst. Trib., III. xvii. (1553), Q viij b. Howbeit, if this persecucion come, we be by this meditacion and well continued entente and purpose beefore, the better strengthed and confirmed.

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1644.  Milton, Educ., 2. Their untutor’d Anglicisms,… not to be avoided without a well continu’d and ’udicious conversing among pure Authors.

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