Hypertext Webster Gateway: "abode"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Abide \A*bide"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Abode}, formerly {Abid};
p. pr. & vb. n. {Abiding}.] [AS. [=a]b[=i]dan; pref. [=a]-
(cf. Goth. us-, G. er-, orig. meaning out) + b[=i]dan to
bide. See {Bide}.]
1. To wait; to pause; to delay. [Obs.] --Chaucer.

2. To stay; to continue in a place; to have one's abode; to
dwell; to sojourn; -- with with before a person, and
commonly with at or in before a place.

Let the damsel abide with us a few days. --Gen.
xxiv. 55.

3. To remain stable or fixed in some state or condition; to
continue; to remain.

Let every man abide in the same calling. --1 Cor.
vii. 20.
Followed by by:

{To abide by}.
(a) To stand to; to adhere; to maintain.

The poor fellow was obstinate enough to abide by
what he said at first. --Fielding.
(b) To acquiesce; to conform to; as, to abide by a
decision or an award.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Abode \A*bode"\, n. [See {Bode}, v. t.]
An omen. [Obs.]

High-thundering Juno's husband stirs my spirit with
true abodes. --Chapman.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Abode \A*bode"\, v. t.
To bode; to foreshow. [Obs.] --Shak.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Abode \A*bode"\, v. i.
To be ominous. [Obs.] --Dryden.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Abode \A*bode"\,
pret. of {Abide}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Abode \A*bode"\, n. [OE. abad, abood, fr. abiden to abide. See
{Abide}. For the change of vowel, cf. abode, imp. of abide.]
1. Act of waiting; delay. [Obs.] --Shak.

And with her fled away without abode. --Spenser.

2. Stay or continuance in a place; sojourn.

He waxeth at your abode here. --Fielding.

3. Place of continuance, or where one dwells; abiding place;
residence; a dwelling; a habitation.

Come, let me lead you to our poor abode.
--Wordsworth.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

abode
n 1: the address where a person lives; "it is his legal place of
residence" [syn: {residence}]
2: housing that someone is living in; "he built a modest
dwelling near the pond"; "they raise money to provide
homes for the homeless" [syn: {dwelling}, {home}, {domicile},
{habitation}, {dwelling house}]


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