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3. To continue; not to suffer to cease or
fail.

Maintain talk with the duke.

Shak.

4. To bear the expense of; to support; to
keep up; to supply with what is needed.

Glad, by his labor, to maintain his
life.

Stirling.

What maintains one vice would bring up two
children.

Franklin.

5. To affirm; to support or defend by
argument.

It is hard to maintain the truth, but much
harder to be maintained by it.

South.

Syn. -- To assert; vindicate; allege. See
Assert.

Main*tain"a*ble (?), a. That may
be maintained.

Main*tain"er (?), n. One who
maintains.

Main*tain"or (?), n. [OF.
mainteneor, F. mainteneur.] (Crim. Law) One
who, not being interested, maintains a cause depending between
others, by furnishing money, etc., to either party.
Bouvier.

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