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/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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Etymology of 'Abide'

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"Abide" Quotes from Famous Books

... honored, let the curse be pronounced. Where the wife is honored, there God is truly worshiped." I wish Jehovah had said something like that from Sinai. Is there anything as beautiful as this in the new testament: "Shall I tell you where nature is more blest and fair? It is where those we love abide. Though the space be small, it is ample as earth; though it be a desert, through it run the ...

— Lectures of Col. R. G. Ingersoll, Volume I • Robert Green Ingersoll

... the same way the white man is telling the black to abide upon the plantation raising cotton and corn, and further than this nothing will be required of him. He can cheat a white man or a black, steal in a petty way anything that comes handy, live in marriage or out ...

— Our Vanishing Wild Life - Its Extermination and Preservation • William T. Hornaday

... vnto London, and earle Goodwine with his sonnes, and a great power of the Westsaxons, came into Southwarke, but perceiuing that manie of his companie stale awaie and slipt from him, he durst not abide anie longer to enter talke with the king, as it was couenanted, but in the night next insuing fled awaie with ...

— Chronicles (1 of 6): The Historie of England (8 of 8) - The Eight Booke of the Historie of England • Raphael Holinshed

... being at the point of death. The King was before the coffin a long space, and looked right fainly on the hermit, for well it seemed him that he had been of a good life. The night was fully come, but within was a brightness of light as if a score of candles were lighted. He had a mind to abide there until that the good man should have passed away. He would fain have sate him down before the coffin, when a voice warned him right horribly to begone thence, for that it was desired to make a judgment within there, that might not be made so long as he were there. The King ...

— High History of the Holy Graal • Unknown

... and Trinidad and Tobago abide by the April 2006 Permanent Court of Arbitration decision delimiting a maritime boundary and limiting catches of flying fish in Trinidad and Tobago's exclusive economic zone; joins other Caribbean states to counter Venezuela's claim ...

— The 2008 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.

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