Verb

To hold up; to lift on high; to elevate.

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To keep erect; to support; to sustain; to keep from falling; to maintain.

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To support by approval or encouragement.

* 1748 . . Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral. London: Oxford University Press, 1973. § 18:

but there was still a connexion upheld among the different ideas, which succeeded each other.

Verb

to contain, hold in.

*2002 , Brian Massumi, A shock to thought: expression after Deleuze and Guattari :

Sound implicates these obscure tethers, which connect sound to noise, thereby giving sound its sense. The implicated difference inholds an obscure reserve of sense.

to possess inherently, contain in oneself

The light which the sun inholds and casts forth. ? Sit Walter Raleigh.