N. stability,
quiescence,
obstinacy,
permanence,
persistence,
endurance,
durability, standing,
status quo, maintenance, preservation,
conservation,
conservation, law of the medes and persians, standing dish
V. let alone, let be, let it be,
persist, remain, stay,
tarry, rest,
stet, hold, hold on, last,
endure,
bide,
abide,
aby, dwell, maintain, keep, stand, stand still, stand fast,
subsist, live, outlive,
survive, hold one's ground, keep one's ground, hold one's footing, keep one's footing, hold good
Adj. stable,
persisting, permanent, established, unchanged &c. (change ), renewed,
intact,
inviolate,
persistent,
monotonous, uncheckered, unfailing, undestroyed,
unrepealed, unsuppressed,
conservative, qualis ab incepto,
prescriptive,
stationary Adv. in statu quo, for good, finally, at a stand, at a standstill, uti possidetis, without a shadow of turning
Phr. esto perpetua, nolumus leges angliae mutari, j'y suis et j'y ereste
N. possession,
seizin,
seisin,
ownership,
occupancy, hold, holding, tenure,
tenancy,
feodality,
dependency,
villenage,
villeinage,
socage,
chivalry,
knight service, exclusive possession,
impropriation,
monopoly, retention, prepossession,
preoccupancy, nine points of the law, corner,
usucaption, future possession,
heritage, inheritance,
heirship, reversion, fee, seigniority,
primogeniture, ultimogeniture, futures contract, warrant, put, call,
option, right of first refusal, bird in hand,
uti possidetis, chose in possession
V. possess, have, hold, occupy, enjoy, be possessed of, have in hand, own, command,
inherit, come to, come in for,
engross,
monopolize,
forestall,
regrate,
impropriate, have all to oneself, corner, have a firmhold of, get into one's hand, belong to, appertain to, pertain to, be in one's possession, vest in
Adj. possessing, worth, possessed of, seized of, master of, in possession of, usucapient, endowed with, blest with, instinct with, fraught with, laden with, charged with, possessed, on hand, by one, in hand, in store, in stock, in one's hands, in one's grasp, in one's possession, at one's command, at one's disposal, one's own, unsold, unshared
Phr. entbehre gern was du nicht hast, meum et tuum, tuum est
N. retention, retaining, keep,
detention, # custody,
tenacity, firm hold,
grasp,
gripe,
grip, iron grip, fangs, teeth, claws, talons,
nail,
unguis, hook,
tentacle,
tenaculum, bond,
clutches,
tongs,
forceps,
pincers,
nippers,
pliers, vice,
paw, hand, finger,
wrist,
fist,
neaf,
neif, bird in hand,
captive V. retain, keep, hold fast one's own, hold tight one's own, hold fast one's ground, hold tight one's ground,
clinch,
clench,
clutch,
grasp,
gripe,
hug, have a firm hold of, secure,
withhold,
detain, hold back, keep back, keep close, husband, reserve, have in stock, have on hand, keep in stock,
entail, tie up, settle
Adj. retaining, retentive,
tenacious,
unforfeited, undeprived, undisposed, uncommunicated,
incommunicable,
inalienable, in mortmain, in strict settlement
Phr. uti possidetis
