abide
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abide
- /əˈbaɪd/ UK
- /əˈbaɪd/ US
Rhymes with -aɪd
Where it comes from
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ud-s-?
Proto-Indo-European *h₂u-s-?
Proto-Germanic *uz-
Proto-Indo-European *bʰeydʰ-
Proto-Indo-European *bʰéydʰeti
Proto-Germanic *bīdaną
Proto-Germanic *uzbīdaną
Proto-West Germanic *uʀbīdan
Old English ābīdan
Middle English abyden
English abide
From Middle English abyden, from Old English ābīdan (“to abide, wait, remain, delay, remain behind; survive; wait for, await; expect”), from Proto-West Germanic *uʀbīdan, from Proto-Germanic *uzbīdaną (“to expect, tolerate”), equivalent to a- + bide.
Cognate with Scots abide (“to abide, remain”), Middle High German erbīten (“to await, expect”), Gothic 𐌿𐍃𐌱𐌴𐌹𐌳𐌰𐌽 (usbeidan, “to expect, await, have patience”). The sense of pay for is due to influence from aby.
verb abides · abiding · abode · abided · abid
- To endure without yielding; to withstand. The old oak tree abides the wind endlessly.
- To bear patiently. "I never could abide shoemakers," said an old servant,—and it ended in her marrying one.
- To pay for; to take the consequences of. Diſparage not the faith thou doſt not know, / Leſt to thy perill thou abide it deare.
- 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.
- To 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.
- To pause; to delay.
- To 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.
- To 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 cle
- To endure; to remain; to last. The Dude abides.
- To stand ready for; to await someone; watch for. Saue that the holy Ghoſt witneſſeth in euery city, ſaying that bonds and afflictions abide me.
- To endure or undergo a hard trial or a task; to stand up under. […]And shalt abide her judgment on it.
- To await submissively; accept without question; submit to. The grand Conſpirator, Abbot of Weſtminſter, / With clog of Conſcience, and ſowre Melancholly, / Hath yeelded vp his body to the graue : / But here is Carlile, liuing to abide / Thy Kingly doome, and ſentence of his pride.
