Verb

(en verb)

(obsolete) To support (someone), to back up or assist (someone) in an action.

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*:And thenne he asked leue & wente oute of his heremytage for to mayntene his neuewe ageynst the myghty Erle / and so hit happed that this man that lyeth here dede dyd so moche by his wysedome and hardynes that the Erle was take and thre of his lordes by force of this dede man

To keep up; to preserve; to uphold (a state, condition etc.).

*, chapter=17

, title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=This time was most dreadful for Lilian. Thrown on her own resources and almost penniless, she maintained herself and paid the rent of a wretched room near the hospital by working as a charwoman, sempstress, anything. In a moment she had dropped to the level of a casual labourer.}}

*{{quote-news, year=2011, date=November 5, author=Phil Dawkes, work=BBC Sport

, title= QPR 2-3 Man City , passage=Mancini's men were far from their best but dug in to earn a 10th win in 11 league games and an eighth successive victory in all competitions to maintain their five-point lead at the top of the table.}}

*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-03, author=Nancy Langston, volume=101, issue=2, page=98

, magazine=(American Scientist) , title= Mining the Boreal North , passage=Reindeer are well suited to the taiga’s frigid winters. They can maintain a thermogradient between body core and the environment of up to 100 degrees, in part because of insulation provided by their fur, and in part because of counter-current vascular heat exchange systems in their legs and nasal passages.}}

To declare or affirm (a clause) to be true; to assert.

* {{quote-news, year=2012, date=April 19, author=Josh Halliday, work=the Guardian

, title= Free speech haven or lawless cesspool – can the internet be civilised? , passage=She maintains that the internet should face similar curbs to TV because young people are increasingly living online. "It's totally different, someone at Google watching the video from the comfort of their office in San Francisco to someone from a council house in London, where this video is happening right outside their front door."}}

Verb

(en verb)

(lb) To make (something) new again; to restore to freshness or original condition.

*c.1596-98 , ,

*:In such a night / Medea gather’d the enchanted herbs / That did renew old AEson.

(lb) To replace (something which has broken etc.); to replenish (something which has been exhausted), to keep up a required supply of.

(lb) To make new spiritually; to regenerate.

*1526 , (William Tyndale), , Romans 12.2:

*:And fassion not youre selves lyke vnto this worlde: But be ye chaunged in youre shape by the renuynge of youre wittes that ye maye fele what thynge that good yt acceptable and perfaycte will of god is.

*, II.2.6.ii:

*:to such as are in fear they strike a great impression, renew many times, and recal such chimeras and terrible fictions into their minds.

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*2010 September, Michael Allen, "St. Louis Preservation Fund", , ISSN 1090-5723, Vol.16, Is.9, p.74:

Renewing neighborhoods dealing with vacant buildings badly need options other than demolition or dangerous vacant spaces.

(lb) To begin again; to recommence.

*, IV.8:

*:Then gan he all this storie to renew , / And tell the course of his captivitie.

*1660 , (John Dryden), translating Virgil, (apparently from Eclogue 4''), a snippet of translation used to introduce Dryden's '' Astræa Redux: A poem on the happy restoration and return of His Sacred Majesty Charles II

*:The last great age, foretold by sacred rhymes, / Renews its finished course ; Saturnian times / Roll round again.

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*:“A tight little craft,” was Austin’s invariable comment on the matron;. ¶ Near her wandered her husband, orientally bland, invariably affable, and from time to time squinting sideways, as usual, in the ever-renewed expectation that he might catch a glimpse of his stiff, retroussé moustache.

(lb) To repeat.

*1674 , (John Milton), :

*:The birds their notes renew , and bleating herds / Attest their joy, that hill and valley rings.

To extend a period of loan, especially a library book that is due to be returned.

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