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continuator|kənˈtɪnjuːeɪtə(r)|
[agent-n. in L. form from continuāre to continue: see -or; cf. mod.F. continuateur.]
1. One who continues, or maintains continuity.
1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. iii. xvi, A way of production which should..contrive the continuation of the species by the destruction of the continuator. 1848W. K. Kelly tr. L. Blanc's Hist. Ten Y. I. 247 Louis Philippe I...that dubious continuator of the thirty-five Capets. 1852Newland Lect. Tractar. 35 Continuators of the apostolic succession indeed, but without spiritual authority. 1866Ferrier Grk. Philos. I. xii. 363 Aristotle..was rather fitted to found a new dynasty in philosophy..than to be the continuator of an old one.
2. One who continues or carries forward work begun by another; esp. one who writes a continuation to a literary work.
1656Heylin Extraneus Vapulans 100 The Continuator of Stowes Chronicle. 1691Wood Ath. Oxon. II. 34 The Author Baker, and his Continuator Philipps. 1766T. Amory Buncle (1770) III. 89 Gabriel Cossart, the continuator, published the other seven volumes in 1672. 1865M. Arnold Ess. Crit. v. 153 Heine..is the most important German successor and continuator of Goethe in Goethe's most important line of activity. 1876Freeman Norm. Conq. V. xxv. 577 In our own Florence, in his southern continuator and his northern interpolator, we read the unvarnished tale. |