abider
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]abider(pluralabiders)
- (obsolete)One who abides, or continues.[First attested around 1350 to 1470.][1]
- c.1583,Philip Sidneywith Evelyn Shirley Shuckburgh,An Apologie for Poetrie,published1891,page 1:
- Hee sayde, they were the Maisters of warre, and ornaments of peace: speedy goers, and strongabiders:triumphers both in Camps and Courts.
- One whodwellsorstays;aresident.[First attested around 1350 to 1470.][1]
- c.1610,John Speedwith Eva Germaine Rimington Taylor,An atlas of Tudor England and Wales: 40 plates from John Speed's pocket atlas,published1951,page27:
- But although it had everything 'to content the purse, the heart, the eye', there was a local proverb saying: 'What is best for theAbideris worst for the [Traveler]
- 1640,George Herbert,Jacula Prudentum; or, Outlandish Proverbs, Sentences, etc.,inThe Remains of that Sweet Singer of the Temple George Herbert,London: Pickering, 1841, p. 150,[1]
- Much spends the traveller more than theabider.
References
[edit]- ↑1.01.1Lesley Brown, editor-in-chief, William R. Trumble and Angus Stevenson, editors (2002), “abider”, inThe Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles,5th edition, Oxford, New York, N.Y.:Oxford University Press,→ISBN,page 4.