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Maintenance :: Maintenance (n.) An officious or unlawful intermeddling in a cause depending between others, by assisting either party with money or means to carry it on. See Champerty..

Maintenance :: Maintenance (n.) That which maintains or supports; means of sustenance; supply of necessaries and conveniences.

Parsonage :: Parsonage (n.) The glebe and house, or the house only, owned by a parish or ecclesiastical society, and appropriated to the maintenance or use of the incumbent or settled pastor..

Maintenance :: Maintenance (n.) The act of maintaining; sustenance; support; defense; vindication.

Espousal :: Espousal (n.) The uniting or allying one's self with anything; maintenance; adoption; as, the espousal of a quarrel..

Causidical :: Causidical (a.) Pertaining to an advocate, or to the maintenance and defense of suits..

Father :: Father (n.) One who performs the offices of a parent by maintenance, affetionate care, counsel, or protection..

Finding :: Finding (n.) Support; maintenance; that which is provided for one; expence; provision.

Aliment :: Aliment (v. t.) To provide for the maintenance of.

Burse :: Burse (n.) A fund or foundation for the maintenance of needy scholars in their studies; also, the sum given to the beneficiaries..

Supporter :: Supportation (n.) Maintenance; support.

Benefice :: Benefice (n.) An ecclesiastical living and church preferment, as in the Church of England; a church endowed with a revenue for the maintenance of divine service. See Advowson..

Innervation :: Innervation (n.) Special activity excited in any part of the nervous system or in any organ of sense or motion; the nervous influence necessary for the maintenance of life,and the functions of the various organs..

Exhibition :: Exhibition (n.) Sustenance; maintenance; allowance, esp. for meat and drink; pension. Specifically: (Eng. Univ.) Private benefaction for the maintenance of scholars..

Belong :: Belong (v. i.) To be native to, or an inhabitant of; esp. to have a legal residence, settlement, or inhabitancy, whether by birth or operation of law, so as to be entitled to maintenance by the parish or town..

Settlement :: Settlement (n.) A settled place of abode; residence; a right growing out of residence; legal residence or establishment of a person in a particular parish or town, which entitles him to maintenance if a pauper, and subjects the parish or town to his support..

Bordland :: Bordland (n.) Either land held by a bordar, or the land which a lord kept for the maintenance of his board, or table..

Keep :: Keep (n.) The means or provisions by which one is kept; maintenance; support; as, the keep of a horse..

Sustentation :: Sustentation (n.) The act of sustaining, or the state of being sustained; preservation from falling; support; sustenance; maintenance..

Sustenance :: Sustenance (n.) The act of sustaining; support; maintenance; subsistence; as, the sustenance of the body; the sustenance of life..

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