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Abide   /əbˈaɪd/   Listen
verb
Abide  v. t.  
1.
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." Note: ((Obs.), with a personal object. "Bonds and afflictions abide me."
2.
To endure; to sustain; to submit to. "(Thou) shalt abide her judgment on it."
3.
To bear patiently; to tolerate; to put up with. "She could not abide Master Shallow."
4.
Note: (Confused with aby to pay for. See Aby.) To stand the consequences of; to answer for; to suffer for. "Dearly I abide that boast so vain."



Abide  v. i.  (past & past part. abode, formerly abid; pres. part. abiding)  
1.
To wait; to pause; to delay. (Obs.)
2.
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."
3.
To remain stable or fixed in some state or condition; to continue; to remain. "Let every man abide in the same calling."
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."
(b)
To acquiesce; to conform to; as, to abide by a decision or an award.






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"Abide" Quotes from Famous Books



... nothing about the Church of Rome," said Charles; "why do you bring in the Church of Rome? that's another thing altogether. What I mean is, that there is a worldly smell about Oxford which I can't abide. I am not using 'worldly' in its worse sense. People are religious and charitable; but—I don't like to mention names—but I know various dons, and the notion of evangelical poverty, the danger of riches, the giving ...
— Loss and Gain - The Story of a Convert • John Henry Newman

... was sixteen years old," La Fosseuse began, "I had to beg my bread on the roadside in Savoy, though my health was very bad. I used to sleep at Echelles, in a manger full of straw. The innkeeper who gave me shelter was kind, but his wife could not abide me, and was always saying hard things. I used to feel very miserable; for though I was a beggar, I was not a naughty child; I used to say my prayers every night and morning, I never stole anything, and I did as Heaven ...
— The Country Doctor • Honore de Balzac

... Blithesome and cumberless, Sweet be thy matin o'er moorland and lea! Emblem of happiness, Blest is thy dwelling-place— O, to abide in the desert with thee! Wild is thy lay and loud, Far in the downy cloud Love gives it energy, love gave it birth. Where, on thy dewy wing, Where art thou journeying? Thy lay is in heaven, thy love is on earth. O'er fell and mountain sheen, O'er moor and mountain green, O'er ...
— Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10 - The Guide • Charles Herbert Sylvester

... boys," he said, setting down the salt thus procured, "I never could abide fresh meat without a pick o' salt to give it a relish. It may be weakness ...
— The Lonely Island - The Refuge of the Mutineers • R.M. Ballantyne

... our small mammals have the habit of making their dwelling places in the soil. Some of them, such as the moles, normally abide in the subterranean realm for all their lives. Others use the excavations as places of retreat. In any case, these excavations serve to move the particles of the soil about, and the materials which the animals drag into the earth, as well as the excrement of the creatures, act to enrich ...
— Outlines of the Earth's History - A Popular Study in Physiography • Nathaniel Southgate Shaler


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