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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006) |
maintained
adj 1: kept in good condition [syn: kept up(p), maintained,
well-kept]
2: continued in your keeping or use or memory; "in...the
retained pattern of dancers and guests remembered" [syn:
retained, maintained]
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2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
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.
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2. To keep possession of; to hold and defend; not to
surrender or relinquish.
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God values . . . every one as he maintains his post.
--Grew.
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3. To continue; not to suffer to cease or fail.
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Maintain talk with the duke. --Shak.
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4. To bear the expense of; to support; to keep up; to supply
with what is needed.
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Glad, by his labor, to maintain his life.
--Stirling.
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What maintains one vice would bring up two children.
--Franklin.
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5. To affirm; to support or defend by argument.
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It is hard to maintain the truth, but much harder to
be maintained by it. --South.
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Syn: To assert; vindicate; allege. See Assert.
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3. Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) |
MAINTAINED, pleadings. This is a technical word, indispensable in an
indictment for maintenance, which no other word or circumlocution will
supply. 1 Wils. 325.
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