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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
incontinent
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A person who is constipated may also be incontinent of faeces because there is leaking around the hard mass.
▪ And Clint Schneider had become doubly incontinent.
▪ Data from these two patients are included in the statistical analysis of the diagnostic anorectal manometry, as they were incontinent.
▪ Families with elderly, incontinent parents, may care to know that waterproof bedding can be purchased from this company.
▪ Inevitably, the incontinent patient needs cleaning and drying at very frequent intervals, to prevent infections such as cystitis.
▪ Perhaps she didn't drink anything before she went to bed because she was worried she was getting incontinent.
▪ She would never wear rubber unless she became incontinent or was taking a course in scuba diving for women.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Incontinent

Incontinent \In*con"ti*nent\, n. One who is unchaste.
--B. Jonson.

Incontinent

Incontinent \In*con"ti*nent\, adv. [Cf. F. incontinent.] Incontinently; instantly; immediately. [Obs.]

He says he will return incontinent.
--Shak.

Incontinent

Incontinent \In*con"ti*nent\, a. [L. incontinens: cf. F. incontinent. See In- not, and Continent.]

  1. Not continent; uncontrolled; not restraining the passions or appetites, particularly the sexual appetite; indulging unlawful lust; unchaste; lewd.

  2. (Med.) Unable to restrain natural evacuations, such as urination or defecation.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
incontinent

late 14c., "wanting in self restraint," from Old French incontinent, from Latin incontinentem (nominative incontinens) "incontinent, immoderate, intemperate," from in- "not, opposite of" (see in- (1)) + continens (see continent). Originally chiefly of sexual appetites; sense of "unable to control bowels or bladder" first attested 1828.

Wiktionary
incontinent

a. 1 (context often followed by of English) Unable to contain or retain. 2 Lacking the ability to restrain natural discharges or evacuations of urination or defecation. 3 Lacking moral or sexual restraint, moderation or self-control, especially of sexual desire. 4 unrestrained or unceasing. n. (context obsolete English) One who is unchaste.

WordNet
incontinent

adj. not having control over urination and defecation [ant: continent]

Wikipedia
Incontinent (album)

Incontinent is the second album by Frank Tovey, better known as Fad Gadget, released in 1981. While developing the industrial sound of his debut Fireside Favourites in 1980, the new album relied less on drum machines and found objects, introducing more traditional instruments such as accordion and jaw harp, as well as making more frequent use of female backing vocals. The album's cover featured Tovey made up as the puppet Punch. Its lyrical content was informed by his tour of the US in 1980.

"Blind Eyes" satirised keeping the world's problems at arm's length, with lines such as "Send a few pounds to a charity / Now we're feeling so much better" and a chorus intoning "Hear no, see no, speak no evil". This was followed by the sexual innuendo of "Swallow It". "Saturday Night Special" took its title from an American revolver and ruminated on the right of men to bear arms and rule their home. It has been called a " baroque ditty for all gun lovers", and "a comment on the macho attitudes of Reagan's America". The title track and "Manual Dexterity", respectively the last track on Side 1 and the first track on Side 2 of the original vinyl LP, were the album's twin instrumentals. The former track featured Mute Records founder Daniel Miller, the latter Robert Gotobed of the band Wire.

A non-album single, "Make Room" backed with "Lady Shave", preceded Incontinent's release on 18 March 1981. "King of the Flies" was released as a flexi-single on 2 October 1981. "Saturday Night Special" backed with "Swallow It Live" (recorded at the Venue on 8 December 1981) was issued on 5 January 1982. A rerecorded version of "King of the Flies" backed with "Plain Clothes" was released on 6 April 1982. None of these singles, or the parent album, made the mainstream charts.

At the time of its release in November 1981, NME remarked on the album's "brooding nature... offset by female vocals and exultant piano". More recently Trouser Press described it as possessing "more instrumental variety and better production" than its predecessor Fireside Favourites, but added: "Forgetting tripe like "Swallow It" and the charming title tune, some of this is interesting enough, but none is really involving; overall, the self-indulgent album rambles incoherently".

Usage examples of "incontinent".

Then will I incontinent with any, all, or whatsoever weapon he chooseth fall upon him and, for this felon stroke, for his ungentle dealing with the maid, I will forthwith gore, rend, tear, pierce, batter, bruise and otherwise use the body of the said Sir Agramore until, growing aweary of its vile tenement, his viler soul shall flee hence to consume evermore with such unholy knaves as he.

I stayed in the cheapest, where one electric bulb hung from a string in the middle of the room, where the sheets were like cheesecloth, and where the mattresses -- when they were revealed as they usually were after a night's restless sleep -- were like maps of strange worlds, the continents being defined by unpleasing stains, doubtless traceable to the incontinent dreams of travelling salesmen, or the rapturous deflowerings of brides from the backwoods.

There were impact-dispersing skullcaps for the clumsy, disposable looparound mouthpieces for the tongue gnashers, lockfast maxi-Pampers for the thrashing incontinent, and countless kinds of medication reminders that beeped and buzzed and chimed to remind the forgetful.

The harridan landladies of his past with their stewed cabbage, incontinent dogs and patched bedclothes inhabit a world far from London N.