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Stay
King James Dictionary
or STAY, pret. staid, for stayed. L., to stand.
1. To remain to continue in a place to abide for any indefinite time. Do you stay here, while I go to the next house. Stay here a week. We staid at the Hotel Montmorenci.
Stay, I command you stay and hear me first.
2. To continue in a state.
The flames augment, and stay at their full highth, then languish to decay.
3. To wait to attend to forbear to act.
I stay for Turnus.
Would ye stay for them from having husbands? Ruth 1 .
4. To stop to stand still.
She would command the hasty sun to stay.
5. To dwell.
I must stay a little on one action.
6. To rest to rely to confide in to trust.
Because ye despise this word, and trust in oppression, and stay thereon--Isaiah 30 .
STAY, pret. and pp. staid, for stayed.
1. To stop to hold from proceeding to withhold to restrain.
All that may stay the mind from thinking that true which they heartily wish were false.
To stay these sudden gusts of passion.
2. To delay to obstruct to hinder from proceeding.
Your ships are staid at Venice.
I was willing to stay my reader on an argument that appeared to me to be new.
3. To keep from departure as, you might have staid me here.
4. To stop from motion or falling to prop to hold up to support.
Aaron and Hur stayed up his hands. Exodus 17 .
Sallows and reeds for vineyards useful found to stay thy vines.
5. To support from sinking to sustain with strength as, to take a luncheon to stay the stomach.
STAY, n.
1. Continuance in a place abode for a time indefinite as, you make a short stay in this city.
Embrace the hero, and his stay implore.
2. Stand stop cessation of motion or progression.
Affairs of state seemd rather to stand at a stay.
But in this sense, we now use stand to be at a stand.
3. Stop obstruction hinderance from progress.
Grievd with each step, tormented with each stay.
4. Restraint of passion moderation caution steadiness sobriety.
With prudent stay, he long deferrd the rough contention.
5. A fixed state.
Alas, what stay is there in human state!
6. Prop support.
Trees serve as so many stays for their vines.
My only strength and stay!
The Lord is my stay. Psalms 18 .
The stay and the staff, the means of supporting and preserving life. Isaiah 3 .
7. Steadiness of conduct.
8. In the rigging of a ship, a large strong rope employed to support the mast, by being extended from its upper end to the stem of the ship. The fore-stay reaches from the foremast head towards the bowsprit end the main-stay extends to the ships stem the mizen-stay is stretched to a collar on the main-mast, above the quarter deck, &c.
Stays, in seamanship, implies the operation of going about or changing the course of a ship, with a shifting of the sails. To be in stays, is to lie with the head to the wind, and the sails so arranged as to check her progress.
To miss stays, to fail in the attempt to go about.
Dictionary of Words from the King James Bible. Public Domain. Copy freely.
Material presented was supplied by Brandon Staggs and was derived from the KJV Dictionary found on his website located at av1611.com.
The unabridged 1828 version of this dictionary in the SwordSearcher Bible Software.
Entry for 'Stay'. King James Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/kjd/s/stay.html.
