adv. [f. CONTINENTAL a. + -LY2.] In a continental manner; in relation to a continent; also fig. with wide views of things (opposed to insularly).
1783. A. Hamilton, in Sparks, Corr. Amer. Rev. (1853), IV. 22. They are the men who think Continentally.
1883. in Amer. Home Mission Rep., May. A time when Christians needed to accustom their minds to larger things, when they needed to think continentally.