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.