4. To remain without ruin or injury; to hold good against tendencies to impair or injure; to be permanent; to
endure; to last; hence, to find endurance, strength, or resources.
My mind on its own center stands unmoved.
Dryden. 5. To maintain one's ground; to be acquitted; not to fail or yield; to be safe.
Readers by whose judgment I would stand or fall.
Spectator. 6. To maintain an invincible or permanent attitude; to be fixed, steady, or firm; to take a position in resistance
or opposition. "The standing pattern of their imitation." South.
The king granted the Jews . . . to gather themselves together, and to stand for their life.
Esther viii.
11. 7. To adhere to fixed principles; to maintain moral rectitude; to keep from falling into error or vice.
We must labor so as to stand with godliness, according to his appointment.
Latimer. 8. To have or maintain a position, order, or rank; to be in a particular relation; as, Christian charity, or
love, stands first in the rank of gifts.
9. To be in some particular state; to have essence or being; to be; to consist. "Sacrifices . . . which stood
only in meats and drinks." Heb. ix. 10.
Accomplish what your signs foreshow;
I stand resigned, and am prepared to go.
Dryden.
Thou seest how it stands with me, and that I may not tarry.
Sir W. Scott. 10. To be consistent; to agree; to accord.
Doubt me not; by heaven, I will do nothing
But what may stand with honor.
Massinger. 11. (Naut.) To hold a course at sea; as, to stand from the shore; to stand for the harbor.
From the same parts of heaven his navy stands.
Dryden. 12. To offer one's self, or to be offered, as a candidate.
He stood to be elected one of the proctors of the university.
Walton. 13. To stagnate; not to flow; to be motionless.
Or the black water of Pomptina stands.
Dryden. 14. To measure when erect on the feet.
Six feet two, as I think, he stands.
Tennyson. 15. (Law) (a) To be or remain as it is; to continue in force; to have efficacy or validity; to abide. Bouvier.
(b) To appear in court. Burrill.
Stand by (Naut.), a preparatory order, equivalent to Be ready. — To stand against, to opposite; to
resist. — To stand by. (a) To be near; to be a spectator; to be present. (b) To be aside; to be aside
with disregard. "In the interim [we] let the commands stand by neglected." Dr. H. More. (c) To maintain; to
defend; to support; not to desert; as, to stand by one's principles or party. (d) To rest on for support; to
be supported by. Whitgift. — To stand corrected, to be set right, as after an error in a statement
