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Maintain United pub from former days
Answer for the clue "Maintain United pub from former days ", 6 letters:
uphold
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
v. keep or maintain in unaltered condition; cause to remain or last; "preserve the peace in the family"; "continue the family tradition"; "Carry on the old traditions" [syn: continue , carry on , bear on , preserve ] [ant: discontinue ] stand up for; stick ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1200, "support, sustain," from up (adv.) + hold (v.). Similar formation in Old Frisian upholda , Middle Dutch ophouden , German aufhalten . Meaning "maintain in good condition or repair" is from 1570s. Related: Upheld ; upholding .
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. 1 To hold up; to lift on high; to elevate. 2 To keep erect; to support; to sustain; to keep from falling; to maintain.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Uphold \Up*hold"\, v. t. To hold up; to lift on high; to elevate. The mournful train with groans, and hands upheld. Besought his pity. --Dryden. To keep erect; to support; to sustain; to keep from falling; to maintain. Honor shall uphold the humble in spirit. ...
Usage examples of uphold.
And he anon, withoute tarrying, Did his message, and when that he it told, Urban for joy his handes gan uphold.
Tyler Argosy, or any of the army men from the fort who would have been his escort here on their mission to uphold the law.
Even traditionalist religious leaders and respected conservative social commentators regularly get called bigots for doing nothing more than upholding the tenets of their faith.
Cassan is far away, and I shall need to rely on my loyal Duke of Cassan to uphold my law-as I know his regents shall do, during his minority.
Indeed the Court has, without appealing to the Twenty-first Amendment, even gone so far as to uphold a statute requiring a permit for transportation of liquor through the enacting State.
Everywhere, no doubt, he expresses contempt for all that is of sense, blames the commerce of the soul with body as an enchainment, an entombment, and upholds as a great truth the saying of the Mysteries that the soul is here a prisoner.
Heaven, why did you withhold a knowledge that would have upheld me and enheartened me through all that I have suffered?
They passed through colonnades of dark electrum, where silver branches dipped, picked out with mercurial leaves, along fructuous avenues arched over with trees of solid gold and then through sylvan palaces upheld with pillars of diamond and emerald, coronaled with flickering lights.
The herd surged toward her and her goatling companions, who waved upheld forelimbs and whistled in perfect imitation of unicorns.
Demand then that Jad-ben-Otho uphold his godship and the dignity of his priesthood by directing his consuming fires through my own bosom.
Surely a combination of a haggish face, and her supposed service to the caravan would impress Lord Harmond, set to uphold customs as he was.
A statute which excluded aliens ineligible to American citizenship from owning real estate was upheld in 1923 on the ground that the treaty in question did not secure the rights claimed.
This is the same Justice Kennedy who upheld legalized abortion in Planned Parenthood v.
Upon which consideration, how palpable a sin will it be to subject to, or accept of any oath that may be imposed by the said British Parliament, for the maintenance and support of such an Union, or for recognoseing, owning and acknowledging the authority of the said Parliament, and that because of our swearing, and promising subjection to the said Parliament, we do thereby homologate the foresaid sinful constitution, and swear, and promise subjection to the bishops of England who are a considerable part of that Parliament, and so we shall be bound and oblidged to maintain and uphold them in their places, dignities, and offices, which is contrar to the Word of God and our covenants, while the very first article of the Solemn League oblidges us to endeavour the reformation of the religion in the kingdom of England, in doctrine, worship, discipline, and government, according to the Word of God, as well as in Scotland.
Egg-shaped as I have said, the wider end was undermost, resting in a broad cup upheld by a slender pedicle silvery-gray and metallic.