Meaning of abide | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To endure without yielding; to withstand.
   transitive
2. To bear patiently.
   transitive
3. To pay for; to stand the consequences of.
   transitive
4. Used in a phrasal verb: abide by (“to accept and act in accordance with”).
5. To wait in expectation.
   intransitive, obsolete
6. To pause; to delay.
   intransitive, obsolete
7. To stay; to continue in a place; to remain stable or fixed in some state or condition; to be left.
   Scotland, archaic, intransitive
8. To have one's abode.
   archaic, intransitive
9. To endure; to remain; to last.
   archaic, intransitive
10. To stand ready for; to await for someone; watch for.
    archaic, transitive
11. To endure or undergo a hard trial or a task; to stand up under.
    obsolete, transitive
12. To await submissively; accept without question; submit to.
    archaic, transitive

Equivalents

Examples

“The old oak tree abides the wind endlessly.”

“"I never could abide shoemakers," said an old servant,—and it ended in her marrying one.”

“VVe will be Kings and Lords within our ſelues, And not abide the pride of tyrranie.”

“Neuer neuer: ſhe would alwayes ſay ſhee could not abide M[aster] Shallow.”

“We are vegetarian leaning, dislike smoking and alcohol, cannot abide drugs.”

“By God sir. I will not abide another toe.”

“Diſparage not the faith thou doſt not know, / Leſt to thy perill thou abide it deare.”

“If it be found ſo, ſome will deere abide it.”

“Ay me, they little know / How dearly I abide that boaſt ſo vaine, / Under what torments inwardly I groane[…]”

“The new teacher was strict and the students did not want to abide by his rules.”

“And Abraham ſaid vnto his yong men, Abide you here with the aſſe, and I and the lad will goe yonder and worſhip, and come againe to you.”

“One generation passeth away, and another generation commeth: but the earth abideth for euer.”

“Let euery man abide in the ſame calling wherein he was called.”

“But they constrained him, saying, Abide with vs, for it is towards euening, and the day is farre spent: And he went in, to tarrie with them.”

“"As how, my lambkin," blushing, she replide, / "Because I in this dancing schoole abide? / If that it be, that breede's this discontent, / We will remoue the camp incontinent: / For shelter onelie, sweete heart, came I hither, / And to auoide the troblous stormie weather; / But now the coaste is cleare, we will be gonne, / Since, but thy self, true louer I haue none."”

“And her brother and her mother ſaid, Let the damſell abide with vs a few dayes, at the leaſt ten ; after that, ſhe ſhall goe.”

“In empty hush, in airless gloom, Mr. Knott abode, in the large room set aside for his exclusive enjoyment, and that of his attendant.”

“The Dude abides.”

“Saue that the holy Ghoſt witneſſeth in euery city, ſaying that bonds and afflictions abide me.”

“I will abide the coming of my lord.”

“[…]And shalt abide her judgment on it.”

“The grand Conſpirator, Abbot of Weſtminſter, / With clog of Conſcience, and ſowre Melancholly, / Hath yeelded vp his body to the graue : / But here is Carlile, liuing to abide / Thy Kingly doome, and ſentence of his pride.”

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