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Reside   /rɪzˈaɪd/  /rizˈaɪd/   Listen
verb
Reside  v. i.  (past & past part. resided; pres. part. residing)  
1.
To dwell permanently or for a considerable time; to have a settled abode for a time; to abide continuosly; to have one's domicile of home; to remain for a long time. "At the moated grange, resides this dejected Mariana." "In no fixed place the happy souls reside."
2.
To have a seat or fixed position; to inhere; to lie or be as in attribute or element. "In such like acts, the duty and virtue of contentedness doth especially reside."
3.
To sink; to settle, as sediment. (Obs.)
Synonyms: To dwell; inhabit; sojourn; abide; remain; live; domiciliate; domicile.






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"Reside" Quotes from Famous Books



... different countenance: if we honour God, keep sacred the pure doctrines of Christ, put a full confidence in the promises contained in the holy scriptures, and obey the political laws of the state in which we reside, we have an undoubted right to protection instead of persecution, and to serve heaven as our consciences, regulated by ...
— Fox's Book of Martyrs - Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant - Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs • John Fox

... circumstance of all, Mr. Brewster, is that no such person as Golden, the purchaser of your properties, can be found. He is supposed to reside in Omaha, and it is known that he paid nearly three million dollars for the property that now stands in his name. He paid it to Mr. Jones in cash, too, and he paid every cent that the ...
— Brewster's Millions • George Barr McCutcheon

... number of Irish families who reside and congregate at Cheltenham fully justifies the poet's particular allusion to the fair ...
— The English Spy • Bernard Blackmantle

... He began to think that he had stayed there perhaps too long. He had received a letter from Mr. Rigby, to inform him that he was expected at Coningsby Castle at the beginning of September, to meet Lord Monmouth, who had returned to England, and for grave and special reasons was about to reside at his chief seat, which he had not visited for many years. Coningsby had intended to have remained at Beaumanoir until that time; but suddenly it occurred to him, that the Age of Ruins was past, and that he ought to seize the opportunity of visiting Manchester, which was in the same ...
— Coningsby • Benjamin Disraeli

... life has many more probabilities of death that ours has; young men more readily fall into diseases, suffer more severely, are cured with more difficulty, and therefore few arrive at old age. Did not this happen so we should live better and more wisely, for intelligence, and reflection, and judgment reside in old men, and if there had been none of them, no states could exist at all. But I return to the imminence of death. What charge is that against old age, since you see it to be common to youth also? I experienced ...
— The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to prose. Volume II (of X) - Rome • Various


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