con tiguous

[Lat. contiguus, from con = cum with, together, and tango to touch; Ital. & Sp. contiguo; Fr. contigu.] I. Ordinary Language: 1. Meeting so as to touch; adjoining, touching, close together, connected. the two halfs of the paper did not appear fully divided from one another, but seemed contiguous at one of their angles."- Newton : Optics. , făt, färe, amidst, what, fall 1088 Followed by with . "Water, being contiguous with air, cooleth it, but moisten eth it not."-Bacon: Natural History . close, near. 2. Used more loosely in the sense of neighboring, "He sees his little lot the lot of all; Sees no contiguous palace rear its head." Goldsmith: The Traveler. *3. Connected in order of time, succe ive. "The favors of our beneficent Saviour were at the least contiguous. No sooner hath he raised the centurion's servant from his bed, than he raises the widow's son from his bier."-Bp. Hall: Cont.; The Widow's Son Raised. *4. Connected as cause and effect; closely related. "But the fancy is determined by habit to pa from the idea of fire to that of melted lead, on account of our having always perceived them contiguous and succe ive ."-Beattie: E ay on Truth , pt. ii., ch. ii., § 3. II. Technically : 1. Med.: Arising from contiguity. 2. Geometry: Contiguous angles : [ADJACENT ANGLES.] †con-tig-u-ous-lỹ, adv . [Eng.contiguous; -ly.] In a contiguous manner; without any intervening space; closely; so as to touch.