Maintain

Maintain (maintain)
v. t.	(?)
Main*tain
[imp. ** p. p.* Maintained (?)] p. pr. ** vb. n.* Maintaining.] [OE. maintenen, F. maintenir, properly, to hold by the hand] main hand (L. manus) + F. tenir t

To hold or keep in any particular state or condition; to support; to sustain; to uphold; to keep up; not to suffer to fail or decline; as, to maintain a certain degree of heat in a furnace; to maintain a fence or a railroad; to maintain the digestive process or powers of the stomach; to maintain the fertility of soil; to maintain present reputation.

To keep possession of; to hold and defend; not to surrender or relinquish.

God values . . . every one as he maintains his post. Grew.

To continue; not to suffer to cease or fail.

Maintain talk with the duke. Shak.

To bear the expense of; to support; to keep up; to supply with what is needed.

Glad, by his labor, to maintain his life. Stirling.

What maintains one vice would bring up two children. Franklin.

To affirm; to support or defend by argument.

It is hard to maintain the truth, but much harder to be maintained by it. South.

Syn. -- To assert; vindicate; allege. See Assert.

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