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  cont.

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  containing.
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  Continental.

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

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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

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

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

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

V.: pp. 1-435—Title, one leaf; Cont. of the Fifth Vol.;

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

The full Titles are given in the Table of Cont. or in the heading of the Poems in Poetical Works, 1898, vol. i. pp. xviii., etc.

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

Collation— Pp. xlvi + Cont., one leaf + 804—Title, one leaf; Life, etc., by J. W. Lake, pp. i.-xli.

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

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