adv. [f. CONTINENTAL a. + -LY2.] In a continental manner; in relation to a continent; also fig. with ‘wide views’ of things (opposed to insularly).

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1783.  A. Hamilton, in Sparks, Corr. Amer. Rev. (1853), IV. 22. They are the men who think Continentally.

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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.’

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