ppl. a. and adv. [UN-1 8.]
1. Not interrupted or broken in respect of continuity or sequence; unintermittent, continuous.
1602. Warner, Alb. Eng., XIII. lxxvi. 316. The euer mouing heauens vninterrupted rounde.
1647. Clarendon, Hist. Reb., I. § 5. The uninterrupted pleasures … of twenty-two years Peace.
1709. Addison, Tatler, No. 192, ¶ 6. An uninterrupted Friendship and Felicity.
1781. Gibbon, Decl. & F., xxxi. III. 195. The uninterrupted succession of senators.
1849. Cobden, Speeches, 29. An interval of several years of uninterrupted peace.
1880. McCarthy, Our Times, xl. III. 223. His career was one of uninterrupted success.
b. Not broken in surface; having no intervals between the parts.
1791. Newte, Tour Eng. & Scot., 58. The cascade … falls … in one uninterrupted sheet.
1822. J. Parkinson, Outl. Oryctol., 159. The margin [of the shell is] … uninterrupted and reflected.
1866. Treas. Bot., 1191/2. Uninterrupted, consisting of regularly increasing or diminishing parts, or of parts all of the same size.
2. Not disturbed or broken into; not interrupted by something.
1657. Cromwell, Sp., in Somers, Tracts (1811), VI. 367. A more free exercise, more uninterrupted by any hand of power.
1728. Eliza Heywood, trans. Mme. de Gomez’s Belle A. (1732), II. 63. The rest of our Voyage was … uninterrupted by the least cross Accident whatever.
1796. Mme. D’Arblay, Camilla, V. 202. Mr. Tyrold would not suffer this scene to be long uninterrupted.
1854. Poultry Chron., II. 194/2. An uninterrupted day of rest.
1873. B. Harte, Fiddletown, 7. The dwellings were … uninterrupted by shops.
3. adv. Without interruption; unhindered.
1677. Yarranton, Eng. Improv., 3. That the Smacks and small Vessels may … fetch in Provisions and Naval Stores uninterrupted.
