abideverb/əˈbaɪd/

• 1

  To endure without yielding; to withstand.

  • The old oak tree abides the wind endlessly.
• 2

  To bear patiently.

  • "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.
• 3

  To pay for; to stand the consequences of.

  • 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.
• 4

  Used in a phrasal verb: abide by (“to accept and act in accordance with”).

  • The new teacher was strict and the students did not want to abide by his rules.
• 5

  obsoleteTo wait in expectation.

  • 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.
• 6

  obsoleteTo pause; to delay.

• 7

  archaicTo stay; to continue in a place; to remain stable or fixed in some state or condition; to be left.

  • 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.
• 8

  archaicTo have one's abode.

  • "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.