Definition of abide

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Abide (v. i.) To stay; to continue in a place; to have one's abode; to dwell; to sojourn; -- with with before a person, and commonly with at or in before a place..

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Seat :: Seat (n.) The place occupied by anything, or where any person or thing is situated, resides, or abides; a site; an abode, a station; a post; a situation..
Abode :: Abode () pret. of Abide.
Stand :: Stand (v. t.) To abide by; to submit to; to suffer.
Bide :: Bide (v. t.) To wait for; as, I bide my time. See Abide..
Continue :: Continue (v. i.) To be steadfast or constant in any course; to persevere; to abide; to endure; to persist; to keep up or maintain a particular condition, course, or series of actions; as, the army continued to advance..
Keep :: Keep (v. i.) To remain in any position or state; to continue; to abide; to stay; as, to keep at a distance; to keep aloft; to keep near; to keep in the house; to keep before or behind; to keep in favor; to keep out of company, or out reach..
Indwell :: Indwell (v. t. & i.) To dwell in; to abide within; to remain in possession.
Continue :: Continue (v. i.) To remain in a given place or condition; to remain in connection with; to abide; to stay.
Inhabit :: Inhabit (v. i.) To have residence in a place; to dwell; to live; to abide.
Dwell :: Dwell (v. i.) To abide as a permanent resident, or for a time; to live in a place; to reside..
Live :: Live (v. i.) To make one's abiding place or home; to abide; to dwell; to reside.
A- :: A- () A, as a prefix to English words, is derived from various sources. (1) It frequently signifies on or in (from an, a forms of AS. on), denoting a state, as in afoot, on foot, abed, amiss, asleep, aground, aloft, away (AS. onweg), and analogically, ablaze, atremble, etc. (2) AS. of off, from, as in adown (AS. ofd/ne off the dun or hill). (3) AS. a- (Goth. us-, ur-, Ger. er-), usually giving an intensive force, and sometimes the sense of away, on, back, as in arise, abide, ago. (4) Old English
Abide :: Abide (v. i.) To remain stable or fixed in some state or condition; to continue; to remain.
Ne Exeat :: Ne exeat () A writ to restrain a person from leaving the country, or the jurisdiction of the court. The writ was originally applicable to purposes of state, but is now an ordinary process of courts of equity, resorted to for the purpose of obtaining bail, or security to abide a decree..
Stick :: Stick (v. i.) To remain where placed; to be fixed; to hold fast to any position so as to be moved with difficulty; to cling; to abide; to cleave; to be united closely.
Abider :: Abider (n.) One who dwells; a resident.
Bail Bond :: Bail bond () Special bail in court to abide the judgment.
Make :: Make (v. t.) To bring about; to bring forward; to be the cause or agent of; to effect, do, perform, or execute; -- often used with a noun to form a phrase equivalent to the simple verb that corresponds to such noun; as, to make complaint, for to complain; to make record of, for to record; to make abode, for to abide, etc..
Won :: Won (v. i.) To dwell or abide.
Abide :: Abide (v. i.) To wait; to pause; to delay.
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