† aˈgain-stand, v. Obs.
[again- 1.]
trans. and intr. To stand against, withstand, resist.
| c 1000 Ags. Gosp. Luke xi. 53 Þa ongunnun ða farisei him aᵹen standan [v.r. onᵹean, Lindisf. wið-stonda, Hatton aᵹén standen]. 1205 Layamon 3692 æine..þe þe wulle aȝen-stonde [later text wid-stonde]. 1315 E.E. Psalter (1843) lxxv. 8 Wha to þe Ogaine-stand sal. 1382 Wyclif Matt. v. 39 Y say to ȝou, to nat aȝein-stonde yuel. c 1400 Apol. for Loll. 77 Þis not aȝenstonding, þei han founden a new ordinaunce. c 1449 Pecock Repr. 479 As Jannes and Mambres aȝenstoden Moyses so these aȝenstonden treuthe. 1558 N. Grimalde Tully's Office iii. 133 He semed to folow profit; but that was none where honestye againstode it. 1553–87 Foxe A. & M. I. 459/1 To againstond thine Enemies. |