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Prop :: Prop (v. t.) To support, or prevent from falling, by placing something under or against; as, to prop up a fence or an old building; (Fig.) to sustain; to maintain; as, to prop a declining state..

Bear :: Bear (v. t.) To carry on, or maintain; to have..

Solifidian :: Solifidian (n.) One who maintains that faith alone, without works, is sufficient for justification; -- opposed to nullifidian..

Poorhouse :: Poorhouse (n.) A dwelling for a number of paupers maintained at public expense; an almshouse; a workhouse.

Presbyterian :: Presbyterian (n.) One who maintains the validity of ordination and government by presbyters; a member of the Presbyterian church.

Maintenance :: Maintenance (n.) The act of maintaining; sustenance; support; defense; vindication.

Sophister :: Sophister (v. t.) To maintain by sophistry, or by a fallacious argument..

War :: War (n.) A condition of belligerency to be maintained by physical force. In this sense, levying war against the sovereign authority is treason..

Supportance :: Supportable (a.) Capable of being supported, maintained, or endured; endurable..

Manicheism :: Manicheism (n.) The doctrines taught, or system of principles maintained, by the Manichaeans..

Polytheist :: Polytheist (n.) One who believes in, or maintains the doctrine of, a plurality of gods..

Ritualism :: Ritualism (n.) Specifically :(a) The principles and practices of those in the Church of England, who in the development of the Oxford movement, so-called, have insisted upon a return to the use in church services of the symbolic ornaments (altar cloths, encharistic vestments, candles, etc.) that were sanctioned in the second year of Edward VI., and never, as they maintain, forbidden by competennt authority, although generally disused. Schaff-Herzog Encyc. (b) Also, the principles and practices o

Terminist :: Terminist (n.) One of a class of theologians who maintain that God has fixed a certain term for the probation of individual persons, during which period, and no longer, they have the offer to grace..

Maintainable :: Maintainable (a.) That maybe maintained.

Homoousian :: Homoousian (n.) One of those, in the 4th century, who accepted the Nicene creed, and maintained that the Son had the same essence or substance with the Father; -- opposed to homoiousian..

Heresy :: Heresy (n.) An offense against Christianity, consisting in a denial of some essential doctrine, which denial is publicly avowed, and obstinately maintained..

Maintain :: Maintain (v. t.) To bear the expense of; to support; to keep up; to supply with what is needed.

Sustentative :: Sustentation (n.) The aggregate of the functions by which a living organism is maintained in a normal condition of weight and growth.

Futurist :: Futurist (n.) One who believes or maintains that the fulfillment of the prophecies of the Bible is to be in the future.

Sorehon :: Sorehon (n.) Formerly, in Ireland, a kind of servile tenure which subjected the tenant to maintain his chieftain gratuitously whenever he wished to indulge in a revel..

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