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KING JAMES BIBLE DICTIONARY

 

Maintainest

The Bible

Bible Usage:

Dictionaries:

  • Included in Eastons: No
  • Included in Hitchcocks: No
  • Included in Naves: No
  • Included in Smiths: No
  • Included in Websters: Yes
  • Included in Strongs: Yes
  • Included in Thayers: No
  • Included in BDB: Yes

Strongs Concordance:

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Maintain

MAINTA'IN, verb transitive [Latin manus and teneo.]

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

2. To hold; to keep; not to lose or surrender; as, to maintain a place or post.

3. To continue; not to suffer to cease; as, to maintain a conversation.

4. To keep up; to uphold; to support the expense of; as, to maintain state or equipage.

What maintains one vice would bring up two children.

5. To support with food, clothing and other conveniences; as, to maintain a family by trade or labor.

6. To support by intellectual powers, or by force of reason; as, to maintain an argument.

7. To support; to defend; to vindicate; to justify; to prove to be just; as, to maintain one's right or cause.

8. To support by assertion or argument; to affirm.

In tragedy and satire, I maintain that this age and the last have excelled the ancients.


Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Maintainable

MAINTA'INABLE, adjective That may be maintained, supported, preserved or sustained.

1. That may be defended or kept by force or resistance; as, a military post is not maintainable

2. That may be defended by argument or just claim; vindicable; defensible.


Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Maintained

MAINTA'INED, participle passive Kept in any state; preserved; upheld; supported; defended; vindicated.


Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Maintainer

MAINTA'INER, noun One who supports, preserves, sustains or vindicates.


Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Maintaining

MAINTA'INING, participle present tense Supporting; preserving; upholding; defending; vindicating.