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Immense the pow’r, immense were the demand; 
Say, at what part of nature will they stand ? Pope. 
To be in a state of firmness, not vacillation.—Common¬ 
wealths by virtue ever stood. Davies. 
My mind on its own centie stands unmov’d. 
And stable as the fabric of the world, 
Propt on itself. Dry den. 
To be in any posture of resistance or defence. 
Seeing how lothly opposite I stood 
To his unnat’ral purpose, in fell motion 
With his prepared sword he charges home 
My unprovided body. Shakspeare. 
From enemies heav’n keep your majesty: 
And when they stand against you, may they fall. 
Shakspeare. 
To be in a state of hostility; to keep the ground.—If he 
would presently yield, Barbarossa promised to let him go 
free ; but if he should stand upon his defence, he threatened 
to make him repent his foolish hardiness. Knol/es. —Not to 
yield; not to fly; not to give way.—Who before him stood 
so to it? for the Lord brought his enemies unto him. 
Ecclus. —To stay; not to fly.—At the soldiery word stand, 
the flyers halted a little. Clarendon.-- To be placed with 
regard to rank or order.—Theology would truly enlarge the 
mind, were it studied with that freedom and that sacred 
charity which it teaches: let this therefore stand always 
chief. Watts. —To remain in the present state. 
That sots and knaves should be so vain 
To wish their vile resemblance may remain; 
And stand recorded, at their own request, 
To future days a libel or a jest. Dryden. 
[ Estar, Spanish.} To be in any particular state; to be: 
emphatically expressed. 
Accomplish what your signs foreshow: 
I stand resign’d, and am prepared to go. Dryden. 
Not to become void; to remain in force. 
A thing within my hosom tells me, 
That no conditions of our peace can stand. Shakspeare. 
To consist; to have its being or essence.—That could not 
make that did the service perfect, as pertaining to the con¬ 
science, which stood only in meats and drinks. Heb. —To 
be with respect to terms of a contract.—The hirelings stand 
at a certain wages. Carets ,—To have a place. 
If it stand 
Within the eye of honour, be assured 
My purse, my person, my extremest means, 
Lie all unlock’d to your occasions. Shakspeare. 
My very enemy’s dog. 
Though he had bit me, should have stood that night 
Against my fire. Shakspeare. 
To be in any state at the time present. 
Opprest nature sleeps :• 
This rest might yet have balm’d thy broken senses. 
Which stand in hard cure. Shakspeare. 
So it stands; and this I fear at last, 
Hume’s knavery will be the duchess’ wreck. Shakspeare. 
To be in a permanent state. 
The broil doubtful long stood, 
As two spent swimmers that do cling together. 
And choke their art. Shakspeare. 
To be with regard to condition or fortune. 
I stand in need of one whose glories may 
Redeem my crimes, ally me to his fame. Dryden. 
To have any particular respect. 
Here stood he in the dark, his sharp sword out. 
Mumbling of wicked charms, conj’ring the moon 
To stand's auspicious mistress. Shakspeare. 
An utter unsuitableness disobedience has to the relation 
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which man necessarily stands in towards his Maker. South. 
—To be without action.—A philosopher disputed with 
Adrian the emperor, and did it but weakly: one of his 
friends, that stood by, said, Methinks you were not like 
yourself last day in argument with the emperor; I could 
have answered better myself. Why, said the philosopher, 
would you have me contend with him that commands thirty 
legions? Bacon.— To depend ; to rest; to be supported.— 
He that will know, must by the connexion of the proofs see 
the truth and the ground it stands on. Locke. —To be with 
regard to state of mind.— Stand in awe and sin not: com¬ 
mune with your own heart upon your bed, and be still. 
Psal.— To succeed; to be acquitted; to be safe.—Readers, 
by whose judgment I would stcmd or fall, would not be 
such as are acquainted only with the French and Italian 
critics. Addison. —To be with respect to any particular. 
Caesar entreats, 
Not to consider in what case thou stand’st 
Further than he is Caesar. Shakspeare. 
To Heaven I do appeal, 
I have lov’d my king and common-weal; 
As for my wife, I know not how it stands. Shakspeare. 
To be resolutely of a party.—The cause must be presumed 
as good on our parts as on theirs, till it be decided who have 
stood for the truth, and who for error. Hooker. 
Shall we sound him ? 
I think he will stand very strong with us. Shakspeare. 
It remains. 
To gratify his noble service, that 
Hath thus stood for his country. Shakspeare. 
To be in the place ; to represent.—Chilon said, that 
kings, friends and favourites were like casting counters; that 
sometimes stood for one, sometimes for ten. Bacon. —To 
remain; to be fixed. 
How soon hath thy prediction, seer blest! 
Measur’d this transient world, the race of time, 
Till time stand fix’d. Milton. 
To hold a course at sea; to have direction towards any 
local point.—The wand did not really stand to the metals, 
when placed under it, or the metalline veins. Boyle. —To 
offer as a candidate.—He stood to be elected one of the proc¬ 
tors for the university. Walton. —To place himself; to be 
placed. 
The fool hath planted in his memory 
An army of good words; and I do know 
A many fools that stand in better place. 
Garnish’d like him, that for a tricksy word 
Defy the matter. Shakspeare. 
Stand by me when he is going. Swift. —To stagnate ; 
not to flow. 
Where Ufens glides along the lowly lands. 
Or the black water of Pomptina stands. Dryden. 
To be with respect to chance. 
Yourself, renowned prince, then stood as fair, 
As any comer I have look’d on, 
For my affection. Shakspeare. 
To remain satisfied.—Though Page be a secure fool, and 
stand so firmly on his wife’s frailty, yet I cannot put off my 
opinion so easily. Shakspeare. —To be without motion. 
—I’ll tell you who time ambles withal, who time gallops 
withal.—Whom stands it still withal ?—With lawyers in 
the vacation; for they sleep between term and term, and 
then they perceive not how time moves. Shakspeare. —To 
make delay.—They will suspect they shall make but small 
progress, if, in the books they read, they must stand to exa¬ 
mine and unravel every argument. Locke. —To insist; to 
dwell with many words, or much pertinacity.—To stpnd 
upon every point, and be curious in particulars, belongeth to 
the first author of the story. 2 Maccab. —To be exposed.— 
Have I lived to stand in the taunt of one that makes fritters 
of English ? Shakspeare. —To persist; to persevere. 
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