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Serving to restrain or limit; restraining; opposing., Exercising restraint as to the indulgence of desires or passions; temperate; moderate., Abstaining from sexual intercourse; exercising restraint upon the sexual appetite; esp., abstaining from illicit sexual intercourse; chaste., Not interrupted; connected; continuous; as, a continent fever., That which contains anything; a receptacle., One of the grand divisions of land on the globe; the main land; specifically (Phys. Geog.), a large body of land differing from an island, not merely in its size, but in its structure, which is that of a large basin bordered by mountain chains; as, the continent of North America.

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