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Definition of Continuous impost

Continuous impost
Continuous Con*tin"u*ous, a. [L. continuus, fr. continere to hold together. See Continent.] 1. Without break, cessation, or interruption; without intervening space or time; uninterrupted; unbroken; continual; unceasing; constant; continued; protracted; extended; as, a continuous line of railroad; a continuous current of electricity. he can hear its continuous murmur. --Longfellow. 2. (Bot.) Not deviating or varying from uninformity; not interrupted; not joined or articulated. Continuous brake (Railroad), a brake which is attached to each car a train, and can be caused to operate in all the cars simultaneously from a point on any car or on the engine. Continuous impost. See Impost. Syn: Continuous, Continual. Usage: Continuous is the stronger word, and denotes that the continuity or union of parts is absolute and uninterrupted; as, a continuous sheet of ice; a continuous flow of water or of argument. So Daniel Webster speaks of ``a continuous and unbroken strain of the martial airs of England.' Continual, in most cases, marks a close and unbroken succession of things, rather than absolute continuity. Thus we speak of continual showers, implying a repetition with occasional interruptions; we speak of a person as liable to continual calls, or as subject to continual applications for aid, etc. See Constant.

Meaning of Continuous impost from wikipedia

- dentilled pediment containing a clock. The range has a plinth, a continuous impost band, a dentilled cornice and a hipped roof. On the front are three...
- are two round-arched blind recessed panels with archivolts, and a continuous impost band. On the north side is a doorway under a segmental arch, on the...
- arcades with round-arched sash windows in recessed round arches, and a continuous impost band. The other ranges contain various openings, in the south range...
- dentilled pediment containing a clock. The range has a plinth, a continuous impost band, a dentilled cornice and a hipped roof. On the front are three...
- designed by John Carr, and is in sandstone on a plinth, with quoins, a continuous impost band, a modillion eaves cornice, and a hipped Welsh slate roof. There...
- bays. On the front are three doorways with fanlights, linked by a continuous impost band. The windows are sashes, those in the ground floor with round-arched...
- arcades with round-arched sash windows in recessed round arches, and a continuous impost band. The other ranges contain various openings, in the south range...
- windows in the upper floor have round-arched heads with keystones and a continuous impost. In the roof is a segmental pedimented gable with a clock face flanked...
- doorway and the ground floor windows have segmental-arched heads and a continuous impost band. The windows in the upper floor have round heads and rusticated...
- weathervane, a moulded eaves cornice, and arched bell openings with continuous impost moulding. The wing has been converted for housing. II St Mary's Church...