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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

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 Coleridge, Ernest Hartley

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

From The Faerie Queene — Volume 01 by Spenser, Edmund

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

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

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 Coleridge, Ernest Hartley

Cont. are identical with those of the Second Edition.

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

III.: pp. viii. + 9-222: Title, one leaf; Cont. to Vol.

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

IV.: pp. 1-426—Title, one leaf; Cont. of the Fourth Vol.;

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