Hypertext Webster Gateway: "withheld"

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

Withhold \With*hold"\, v. t. [imp. {Withheld}; p. p. {Withheld},
Obs. or Archaic {Withholden}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Withholding}.]
[With again, against, back + hold.]
1. To hold back; to restrain; to keep from action.

Withhold, O sovereign prince, your hasty hand From
knitting league with him. --Spenser.

2. To retain; to keep back; not to grant; as, to withhold
assent to a proposition.

Forbid who will, none shall from me withhold Longer
thy offered good. --Milton.

3. To keep; to maintain; to retain. [Obs.]

To withhold it the more easily in heart. --Chaucer.

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