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cont.

¹ American  

abbreviation

1. containing.

2. contents.

3. continent.

4. continental.

5. continue.

6. continued.

7. contra.

8. contract.

9. contraction.

10. control.

11. (in prescriptions) bruised.

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Cont. ² American  

abbreviation

1. Continental.

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Etymology

Origin of cont.

From Latin contūsus cont. for def. 11

Example Sentences

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cont. Cont.

In a newspaper in Chicago, where the heavyweight champ's wife has sued for divorce, appeared the following ad: "Not resp. for debts cont. by anyone but myself, Joe Louis Barrow, 550 E. 61st St."

From Time Magazine Archive

App.: cont. two epistles from the Armenian, etc. p.

From The Works of Lord Byron, Vol. 7. Poetry by Ernest Hartley Coleridge

The Second Part of the Faerie Queene, cont. the 4, 5, and 6 bookes, vj_d_.

From The Faerie Queene — Volume 01 by Edmund Spenser

Cont. are identical with those of the Second Edition.

From The Works of Lord Byron, Vol. 7. Poetry by Ernest Hartley Coleridge

Note.—Collation and Cont. are identical with those of the Second Edition.

From The Works of Lord Byron, Vol. 7. Poetry by Ernest Hartley Coleridge

The Cont. are printed at the end of the volume.

From The Works of Lord Byron, Vol. 7. Poetry by Ernest Hartley Coleridge

I. of this edition, the misplaced "Advertisement" to The Giaour is on pp. i., ii., and pp. ix.*, x.*, giving Cont. of Hebrew Melodies, are not inserted.

From The Works of Lord Byron, Vol. 7. Poetry by Ernest Hartley Coleridge

The Cont. are also identical, save that on p.

From The Works of Lord Byron, Vol. 7. Poetry by Ernest Hartley Coleridge