Word Meanings - UNCONTINENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Not continent; incontinent. Wyclif .

Related words: (words related to UNCONTINENT)

• INCONTINENT
  Unable to restrain natural evacuations. (more info) 1. Not continent; uncontrolled; not restraining the passions or appetites, particularly the sexual appetite; indulging unlawful lust; unchaste; lewd.
• CONTINENTAL SYSTEM
  The system of commercial blockade aiming to exclude England from commerce with the Continent instituted by the Berlin decree, which Napoleon I. issued from Berlin Nov. 21, 1806, declaring the British Isles to be in a state of blockade, and British
• CONTINENTAL GLACIER
  A broad ice sheet resting on a plain or plateau and spreading outward from a central névé, or region of accumulation.
• CONTINENTAL DRIVE
  A transmission arrangement in which the longitudinal crank shaft drives the rear wheels through a clutch, change-speed gear, countershaft, and two parallel side chains, in order.
• INCONTINENTLY
  1. In an incontinent manner; without restraint, or without due restraint; -- used esp. of the passions or appetites. 2. Immediately; at once; forthwith. Immediately he sent word to Athens that he would incontinently come hither with a host of men.
• WYCLIFITE; WYCLIFFITE
  A follower of Wyclif, the English reformer; a Lollard.
• CONTINENTLY
  In a continent manner; chastely; moderately; temperately.
• CONTINENTAL
  Of or pertaining to the confederated colonies collectively, in the time of the Revolutionary War; as, Continental money. The army before Boston was designated as the Continental army, in contradistinction to that under General Gage, which was called
• CONTINENT
  continere to hold together, to repress: cf. F. continent. See 1. Serving to restrain or limit; restraining; opposing. Shak. 2. Exercising restraint as to the indulgence of desires or passions; temperate; moderate. Have a continent forbearance
• CONTINENTAL PRONUNCIATION
  A method of pronouncing Latin and Greek in which the vowels have their more familiar Continental values, as in German and Italian, the consonants being pronounced mostly as in English. The stricter form of this method of pronouncing Latin approaches
• INTERCONTINENTAL
  Between or among continents; subsisting or carried on between continents; as, intercontinental relations or commerce.
• UNCONTINENT
  Not continent; incontinent. Wyclif .
• TRANSCONTINENTAL
  Extending or going across a continent; as, a transcontinental railroad or journey.