Definition of maintain

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Maintain (v. t.) To affirm; to support or defend by argument.

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War :: War (n.) A condition of belligerency to be maintained by physical force. In this sense, levying war against the sovereign authority is treason..
Polygamist :: Polygamist (a.) One who practices polygamy, or maintains its lawfulness..
Quietism :: Quietism (n.) The system of the Quietists, who maintained that religion consists in the withdrawal of the mind from worldly interests and anxieties and its constant employment in the passive contemplation of God and his attributes..
Tenet :: Tenet (n.) Any opinion, principle, dogma, belief, or doctrine, which a person holds or maintains as true; as, the tenets of Plato or of Cicero..
Maintained :: Maintained (imp. & p. p.) of Maintai.
Monogenist :: Monogenist (n.) One who maintains that the human races are all of one species; -- opposed to polygenist.
Pose :: Pose (v. i.) To assume and maintain a studied attitude, with studied arrangement of drapery; to strike an attitude; to attitudinize; figuratively, to assume or affect a certain character; as, she poses as a prude..
Homoiothermal :: Homoiothermal (a.) Maintaining a uniform temperature; haematothermal; homothermic; -- applied to warm-bodied animals, because they maintain a nearly uniform temperature in spite of the great variations in the surrounding air; in distinct from the cold-blooded (poikilothermal) animals, whose body temperature follows the variations in temperature of the surrounding medium..
Abet :: Abet (v. t.) To support, uphold, or aid; to maintain; -- in a good sense..
Mysticism :: Mysticism (n.) The doctrine of the Mystics, who professed a pure, sublime, and wholly disinterested devotion, and maintained that they had direct intercourse with the divine Spirit, and aquired a knowledge of God and of spiritual things unattainable by the natural intellect, and such as can not be analyzed or explained..
Persevere :: Persevere (v. i.) To persist in any business or enterprise undertaken; to pursue steadily any project or course begun; to maintain a purpose in spite of counter influences, opposition, or discouragement; not to give or abandon what is undertaken..
Nutrition :: Nutrition (n.) In the broadest sense, a process or series of processes by which the living organism as a whole (or its component parts or organs) is maintained in its normal condition of life and growth..
Maintainable :: Maintainable (a.) That maybe maintained.
Lie :: Lie (adj.) To be sustainable; to be capable of being maintained.
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..
Personable :: Personable (a.) Enabled to maintain pleas in court.
Vindicate :: Vindicate (v. t.) To support or maintain as true or correct, against denial, censure, or objections; to defend; to justify..
Asserter :: Asserter (n.) One who asserts; one who avers pr maintains; an assertor.
Vindicate :: Vindicate (v. t.) To maintain, as a law or a cause, by overthrowing enemies..
Supportance :: Supportable (a.) Capable of being supported, maintained, or endured; endurable..
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