Abide

Abide (abide)
v. i.	((?))
A*bide"
[imp. ** p. p.* Abode (&?]

To wait; to pause; to delay.

[Obs.] Chaucer.

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.

Let the damsel abide with us a few days.
Gen. xxiv. 55.

To remain stable or fixed in some state or condition; to continue; to remain.

Let every man abide in the same calling.
1 Cor. vii. 20.

Followed by by: To abide by. (a) To stand to; to adhere; to maintain.

The poor fellow was obstinate enough to abide by what he said at first.
Fielding.

(b) To acquiesce; to conform to; as, to abide by a decision or an award.

Abide

Abide (abide)
v. t.
A*bide"

To wait for; to be prepared for; to await; to watch for; as, I abide my time.

"I will abide the coming of my lord." Tennyson.

[[Obs.], with a personal object.

Bonds and afflictions abide me.
Acts xx. 23.

To endure; to sustain; to submit to.

[Thou] shalt abide her judgment on it.
Tennyson.

To bear patiently; to tolerate; to put up with.

She could not abide Master Shallow.
Shak.

To stand the consequences of; to answer for; to suffer for.

Dearly I abide that boast so vain.
Milton.

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