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Maintained
Maintain Main*tain, v. t. [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 to hold (L. tenere). See Manual, and Tenable.] 1. 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. 2. To keep possession of; to hold and defend; not to surrender or relinquish. God values . . . every one as he maintains his post. --Grew. 3. To continue; not to suffer to cease or fail. Maintain talk with the duke. --Shak. 4. 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. 5. 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.
Maintainer
Maintainer Main*tain"er, n. One who maintains.

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- set their Country in combustion, have pretended Religion to raise and maintaine a most wicked rebellion: against those Nero's, who have ripped up the...
- to the said fort; Provided that he the said Leift. Rolfe doe keepe and maintaine sixe men vpon the place duringe the terme and time of three yeares, for...
- but Twisse maintained that "not one of our divines, that I know, doth maintaine that God did ever purpose to inflict ****ation, but for sin." Twisse did...
- pray, etc. ... Even so the Lord by his great might, my comfort doth maintaine, In keeping and preserving still, my Prince from Traitors traine. And...
- making a s****e for sparrowes & small birds, the bitour made shift to maintaine herself upon them'. Myers, P.; Espinosa, R.; Parr, C.S.; Jones, T.; Hammond...
- to draw such persons to consent unto a Law which shall compel them to maintaine ministers of a contrary perswasion to themselves." In 1650, Maryland had...
- to draw such persons to consent unto a Law which shall compel them to maintaine ministers of a contrary perswasion to themselves". In 1679, Charles and...
- the Court of Rome, to hinder the reformation of their errors, and to maintaine their greatnesse. Written in Italian by Pietro Soaue Polano, and faithfully...
- Eastwood it by Garston's hand was slaine, A truth which old mythologists maintaine The name Garston corresponds to a local well-to-do family – one that the...
- Executed in all Your Judgements? Will You to the utmost of Your power Maintaine the Laws of God the true Profession of the Gospell and the Protestant...