Definition of maintain

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Maintain (v. t.) To keep possession of; to hold and defend; not to surrender or relinquish.

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Heresy :: Heresy (n.) An offense against Christianity, consisting in a denial of some essential doctrine, which denial is publicly avowed, and obstinately maintained..
Conservative :: Conservative (n.) One who desires to maintain existing institutions and customs; also, one who holds moderate opinions in politics; -- opposed to revolutionary or radical..
Defender :: Defender (n.) One who defends; one who maintains, supports, protects, or vindicates; a champion; an advocate; a vindicator..
Stand :: Stand (n.) To maintain one's ground; to be acquitted; not to fail or yield; to be safe.
Knight :: Knight (n.) In feudal times, a man-at-arms serving on horseback and admitted to a certain military rank with special ceremonies, including an oath to protect the distressed, maintain the right, and live a stainless life..
Contest :: Contest (v. t.) To strive earnestly to hold or maintain; to struggle to defend; as, the troops contested every inch of ground..
Futurist :: Futurist (n.) One who believes or maintains that the fulfillment of the prophecies of the Bible is to be in the future.
Escot :: Escot (v. t.) To pay the reckoning for; to support; to maintain.
Probabilist :: Probabilist (n.) One who maintains that a man may do that which has a probability of being right, or which is inculcated by teachers of authority, although other opinions may seem to him still more probable..
Packing :: Packing (n.) A yielding ring, as of metal, which surrounds a piston and maintains a tight fit, as inside a cylinder, etc..
Maintainor :: Maintainor (n.) One who, not being interested, maintains a cause depending between others, by furnishing money, etc., to either party..
Maintenance :: Maintenance (n.) The act of maintaining; sustenance; support; defense; vindication.
Opponent :: Opponent (n.) One who opposes in a disputation, argument, or other verbal controversy; specifically, one who attacks some theirs or proposition, in distinction from the respondent, or defendant, who maintains it..
Claim :: Claim (v./.) To assert; to maintain.
Act :: Act (n.) A thesis maintained in public, in some English universities, by a candidate for a degree, or to show the proficiency of a student..
Maintain :: Maintain (v. t.) To continue; not to suffer to cease or fail.
Bear :: Bear (v. t.) To carry on, or maintain; to have..
Verify :: Verify (v. t.) To maintain; to affirm; to support.
Maintaining :: Maintaining (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Maintai.
Thine :: Thine (pron. & a.) A form of the possessive case of the pronoun thou, now superseded in common discourse by your, the possessive of you, but maintaining a place in solemn discourse, in poetry, and in the usual language of the Friends, or Quakers..
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