Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter S - Page 152
Statuing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Statue.
Statue (v. t.) 以雕像裝飾 To place, as a statue; to form a statue of; to make into a statue. "The whole man becomes as if statued into stone and earth." -- Feltham.
Statue (n.) A sculpture representing a human or animal.
Statued (a.) 以雕像裝飾的；以雕像表現的 Adorned with statues. "The statued hall." -- Longfellow. "Statued niches." -- G. Eliot.
Statueless (a.) Without a statue.
Statuelike (a.) Like a statue; motionless.
Statuesque (a.) 雕像（一般）的；莊嚴而優雅的 Partaking of, or exemplifying, the characteristics of a statue; having the symmetry, or other excellence, of a statue artistically made; as, statuesquelimbs; a statuesque attitude.
Their characters are mostly statuesque even in this respect, that they have no background. -- Hare.
Statuesque (a.) Of size and dignity suggestive of a statue [syn: stately, statuesque].
Statuesque (a.) Suggestive of a statue [syn: Junoesque, statuesque].
Statuesquely (adv.) In a statuesque manner; in a way suggestive of a statue; like a statue.
A character statuesquely simple in its details. -- Lowell.
Statuette (n.) 小雕像 A small statue; -- usually applied to a figure much less than life size, especially when of marble or bronze, or of plaster or clay as a preparation for the marble or bronze, as distinguished from a figure in terra cotta or the like. Cf. Figurine.
Statuette (n.) A small carved or molded figure [syn: figurine, statuette].
Statuminate (v. t.) To prop or support. [Obs.] -- B. Jonson.
Stature (n.) 身高，身材；（物體的）高度；（精神，道德等的）高度境界，高度水準 The natural height of an animal body; -- generally used of the human body.
Foreign men of mighty stature came. -- Dryden.
Stature (n.) High level of respect gained by impressive development or achievement; "a man of great stature".
Stature (n.) (Of a standing person) The distance from head to foot [syn: stature, height].
Statured (a.) Arrived at full stature. [R.]
Status (n.) State; condition; position of affairs.
Status in quo (n.) Alt. of Status quo.
Status quo (n.) The state in which anything is already.
The phrase is also used retrospectively, as when, on a treaty of place, matters return to the status quo ante bellum, or are left in statu quo ante bellum, i.e., the state (or, in the state) before the war. The form status quo is in most common use.
Status quo (n.) The existing state of affairs.
The status quo (n.) [ S ] The present situation.
// Certain people always want to maintain the status quo.
Statutable (a.) Made or introduced by statute; proceeding from an act of the legistature; as, a statutable provision or remedy.
Statutable (a.) Made or being in conformity to statute; standard; as, statutable measures.
Statutably (adv.) Conformably to statute.
Statute (n.) [C] 法令，法規；成文法；章程，規則；條例 An act of the legislature of a state or country, declaring, commanding, or prohibiting something; a positive law; the written will of the legislature expressed with all the requisite forms of legislation; -- used in distinction fraom common law. See Common law, under Common, a. -- Bouvier.
Note: Statute is commonly applied to the acts of a legislative body consisting of representatives. In monarchies, the laws of the sovereign are called edicts, decrees, ordinances, rescripts, etc. In works on international law and in the Roman law, the term is used as embracing all laws imposed by competent authority. Statutes in this sense are divided into statutes real, statutes personal, and statutes mixed; statutes real applying to immovables; statutes personal to movables; and statutes mixed to both classes of property.
Statute (a.) An act of a corporation or of its founder, intended as a permanent rule or law; as, the statutes of a university.
Statute (a.) An assemblage of farming servants (held possibly by statute) for the purpose of being hired; -- called also statute fair. [Eng.] Cf. 3d Mop, 2. -- Halliwell.
Statute book, A record of laws or legislative acts. -- Blackstone.
Statute cap, A kind of woolen cap; -- so called because enjoined to be worn by a statute, dated in 1571, in behalf of the trade of cappers. [Obs.] -- Halliwell.
Statute fair. See Statute, n., 3, above.
Statute labor, A definite amount of labor required for the public service in making roads, bridges, etc., as in certain English colonies.
Statute merchant (Eng. Law), A bond of record pursuant to the stat. 13 Edw. I., acknowledged in form prescribed, on which, if not paid at the day, an execution might be awarded against the body, lands, and goods of the debtor, and the obligee might hold the lands until out of the rents and profits of them the debt was satisfied; -- called also a pocket judgment. It is now fallen into disuse. -- Tomlins. -- Bouvier.
Statute mile. See under Mile.
Statute of limitations (Law), A statute assigning a certain time, after which rights can not be enforced by action.
Statute staple, A bond of record acknowledged before the mayor of the staple, by virtue of which the creditor may, on nonpayment, forthwith have execution against the body, lands, and goods of the debtor, as in the statute merchant. It is now disused. -- Blackstone.
Syn: Act; regulation; edict; decree. See Law.
Statute (a.) Enacted by a legislative body; "statute law"; "codified written laws" [syn: codified, statute(p)].
Statute (n.) An act passed by a legislative body [syn: legislative act, statute].
Statute. () The written will of the legislature, solemnly expressed according to the forms prescribed in the constitution; an act of the legislature.
Statute. () This word is used in contradistinction to the common law. Statutes acquire their force from the time of their passage unless otherwise provided. 7 Wheat. R. 104: 1 Gall. R. 62.
Statute. () It is a general rule that when the provision of a statute is general, everything which is necessary to make such provision effectual is supplied by the common law; Co. Litt. 235; 2 Inst. 222; Bac. Ab. h.t. B; and when a power is given by statute, everything necessary for making it effectual is given by implication: quando le aliquid concedit, concedere videtur et id pe quod devenitur ad aliud. 12 Co. 130, 131 2 Inst. 306.
Statute. () Statutes are of several kinds; namely, Public or private. 1. Public statutes are those of which the judges will take notice without pleading; as, those which concern all officers in general; acts concerning trade in general or any specific trade; acts concerning all persons generally. 2. Private acts, are those of which the judges will not take notice without pleading; such as concern only a particular species, or person; as, acts relating to any particular place, or to several particular places, or to one or several particular counties. Private statutes may be rendered public by being so declared by the legislature. Bac. Ab. h.t. F; 1 Bl. Com. 85. Declaratory or remedial. 1. A declaratory statute is one which is passed in order to put an end to a doubt as to what the common law is, and which declares what it is, and has ever been. 2. Remedial statutes are those which are made to supply such defects, and abridge such superfluities in the common law as may have been discovered. 1 Bl. Com. 86. These remedial statutes are themselves divided into enlarging statutes, by which the common law is made more comprehensive and extended than it was before; and into restraining statutes, by which it is narrowed down to that which is just and proper. The term remedial statute is also applied to those acts which give the party injured a remedy, and in some respects those statutes are penal. Esp. Pen. Act. 1.
Statute. () Temporary or perpetual. 1. A temporary statute is one which is limited in its duration at the time of its enactment. It continues in force until the time of its limitation has expired, unless sooner repealed. 2. A perpetual statute is one for the continuance of which there is no limited time, although it be not expressly declared to be so. If, however, a statute which did not itself contain any limitation, is to be governed by another which is temporary only, the former will also be temporary and dependent upon the existence of the latter. Bac. Ab. h.t. D.
Statute. () Affirmative or negative. 1. An affirmative statute is one which is enacted in affirmative terms; such a statute does not take away the common law. If, for example, a statute without negative words, declares that when certain requisites shall have been complied with, deeds shall, have in evidence a certain effect, this does not prevent their being used in evidence, though the requisites have not been complied with, in the same manner as they might have been before the statute was passed. 2 Cain. R. 169. 2. A negative statute is one expressed in negative terms, and so controls the common law, that it has no force in opposition to the statute. Bro. Parl. pl. 72; Bac. Ab. h.t. G.
Statute. () Penal statutes are those which order or prohibit a thing under a certain penalty. Esp. Pen. Actions, 5 Bac. Ab. h.t. I, 9. Vide, generally, Bac. Ab. h.t.; Com. Dig. Parliament; Vin. Ab. h.t.; Dane's Ab. Index, h.t.; Chit. Pr. Index, h.t.; 1 Kent, Com. 447-459; Barrington on the Statutes, Boscaw. on Pen. Stat.; Esp. on Penal Actions and Statutes.
Statute. () Among the civilians, the term statute is generally applied to all sorts of laws and regulations; every provision of law which ordains, permits, or prohibits anything is a statute without considering from what source it arises. Sometimes the word is used in contradistinction to the imperial Roman law, which, by way of eminence, civilians call the common law. They divide statutes into three classes, personal, real and mixed.
Statute. () Personal statutes are those which have principally for their object the person, and treat of property only incidentally; such are those which regard birth, legitimacy, freedom, the fight of instituting suits, majority as to age, incapacity to contract, to make a will, to plead in person, and the like. A personal statute is universal in its operation, and in force everywhere.
Statute. () Real statutes are those which have principally for their object, property, and which do not speak of persons, except in relation to property; such are those which concern the disposition, which one may make of his property either alive or by testament. A real statute, unlike a personal one, is confined in its operation to the country of its origin.
Statute. () Mixed statutes are those which concern at once both persons and property. But in this sense almost all statutes are mixed, there being scarcely any law relative to persons, which does not at the same time relate to things. Vide Merl. Repert. mot Statut; Poth. Cout. d'Orleans, ch. 1; 17 Martin's Rep. 569-589; Story's Confl. of Laws, Sec. 12, et seq.; Bouv. Inst. Index, h.t.
Statutory (a.) 法令的，法規的；法定的；法律承認的；可依法懲處的 Enacted by statute; depending on statute for its authority; as, a statutory provision. Staunchly; Staunch
Statutory (a.) Relating to or created by statutes; "statutory matters"; "statutory law".
Statutory (a.) Prescribed or authorized by or punishable under a statute; "statutory restrictions"; "a statutory age limit"; "statutory crimes"; "statutory rape".
Staunch () Alt. of Staunchness.
Staunchly () Alt. of Staunchness.
Staunchness () See Stanch, Stanchly, etc.
Staunchness (n.) Loyalty in the face of trouble and difficulty [syn: steadfastness, staunchness].
Staurolite (n.) (Min.) A mineral of a brown to black color occurring in prismatic crystals, often twinned so as to form groups resembling a cross. It is a silicate of aluminia and iron, and is generally found imbedded in mica schist. Called also granatite, and grenatite.
Staurolitic (a.) (Min.) Of or pertaining to staurolite; resembling or containing staurolite.
Stauroscope (n.) (Crystallog.) An optical instrument used in determining the position of the planes of light-vibration in sections of crystals.
Staurotide (n.) (Min.) Staurolite.
Stave (n.) One of a number of narrow strips of wood, or narrow iron plates, placed edge to edge to form the sides, covering, or lining of a vessel or structure; esp., one of the strips which form the sides of a cask, a pail, etc.
Stave (n.) One of the cylindrical bars of a lantern wheel; one of the bars or rounds of a rack, a ladder, etc.
Stave (n.) A metrical portion; a stanza; a staff.
Let us chant a passing stave In honor of that hero brave. -- Wordsworth.
Stave (n.) (Mus.) The five horizontal and parallel lines on and between which musical notes are written or pointed; the staff [7]. [Obs.]
Stave jointer, A machine for dressing the edges of staves.
Stave (n.) (Music) The system of five horizontal lines on which the musical notes are written [syn: staff, stave].
Stave (n.) One of several thin slats of wood forming the sides of a barrel or bucket [syn: stave, lag].
Stave (n.) A crosspiece between the legs of a chair [syn: rung, round, stave].
Stave (v.) Furnish with staves; "stave a ladder".
Stave (v.) Burst or force (a hole) into something [syn: stave, stave in].
Staved (imp. & p. p.) of Stave.
Stove (imp. & p. p) of Stave.
Staving (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Stave.
Stave (v. t.) To break in a stave or the staves of; to break a hole in; to burst; -- often with in; as, to stave a cask; to stave in a boat.
Stave (v. t.) To push, as with a staff; -- with off.
The condition of a servant staves him off to a distance. -- South.
Stave (v. t.) To delay by force or craft; to drive away; -- usually with off; as, to stave off the execution of a project.
And answered with such craft as women use, Guilty or guiltless, to stave off a chance That breaks upon them perilously. -- Tennyson.
Stave (v. t.) To suffer, or cause, to be lost by breaking the cask.
All the wine in the city has been staved. -- Sandys.
Stave (v. t.) To furnish with staves or rundles. -- Knolles.
Stave (v. t.) To render impervious or solid by driving with a calking iron; as, to stave lead, or the joints of pipes into which lead has been run.
To stave and tail, In bear baiting, (to stave) to interpose with the staff, doubtless to stop the bear; (to tail) to hold back the dog by the tail. -- Nares.
Stave (v. i.) To burst in pieces by striking against something; to dash into fragments.
Like a vessel of glass she stove and sank. -- Longfellow.
Staves (n.) pl. of Staff.
Staves (n. pl.) pl. of Stave.
Stavesacre (n.) (Bot.) A kind of larkspur (Delphinium Staphysagria), and its seeds, which are violently purgative and emetic. They are used as a parasiticide, and in the East for poisoning fish.
Stavewood (n.) (Bot.) A tall tree ({Simaruba amara) growing in tropical America. It is one of the trees which yields quassia.
Staving (n.) A cassing or lining of staves; especially, one encircling a water wheel.
Staw (v. i.) To be fixed or set; to stay. [Prov. Eng.]
Stay (n.) A large, strong rope, employed to support a mast, by being extended from the head of one mast down to some other, or to some part of the vessel. Those which lead forward are called fore-and-aft stays; those which lead to the vessel's side are called backstays. See Illust. of Ship.
In stays, or Hove in stays (Naut.), in the act or situation of staying, or going about from one tack to another. -- R. H. Dana, Jr.
Stay holes (Naut.), Openings in the edge of a staysail through which the hanks pass which join it to the stay.
Stay tackle (Naut.), A tackle attached to a stay and used for hoisting or lowering heavy articles over the side.
To miss stays (Naut.), To fail in the attempt to go about. -- Totten.
Triatic stay (Naut.), A rope secured at the ends to the heads of the foremast and mainmast with thimbles spliced to its bight into which the stay tackles hook.
Stayed (imp. & p. p.) of Stay.
Staid () of Stay.
Staying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Stay.
Stay (v. t.) To stop from motion or falling; to prop; to fix firmly; to hold up; to support.
Aaron and Hur stayed up his hands, the one on the one side, and the other on the other side. -- Ex. xvii. 12.
Sallows and reeds . . . for vineyards useful found To stay thy vines.
Stay (v. t.) To support from sinking; to sustain with strength; to satisfy in part or for the time.
He has devoured a whole loaf of bread and butter; and it has not staid his stomach for a minute. -- Sir W. Scott.
Stay (v. t.) To bear up under; to endure; to support; to resist successfully.
She will not stay the siege of loving terms, Nor bide the encounter of assailing eyes. -- Shak.
Stay (v. t.) To hold from proceeding; to withhold; to restrain; to stop; to hold.
Him backward overthrew and down him stayed With their rude hands and grisly grapplement. -- Spenser.
All that may stay their minds from thinking tha true which they heartily wish were false. -- Hooker.
Stay (v. t.) To hinder; to delay; to detain; to keep back.
Your ships are stayed at Venice. -- Shak.
This business staid me in London almost a week. -- Evelyn.
I was willing to stay my reader on an argument that appeared to me new. -- Locke.
Stay (v. t.) To remain for the purpose of; to wait for. "I stay dinner there." -- Shak.
Stay (v. t.) To cause to cease; to put an end to.
Stay your strife. -- Shak.
For flattering planets seemed to say This child should ills of ages stay. -- Emerson.
Stay (v. t.) (Engin.) To fasten or secure with stays; as, to stay a flat sheet in a steam boiler.
Stay (v. t.) (Naut.) To tack, as a vessel, So that the other side of the vessel shall be presented to the wind.
To stay a mast (Naut.), To incline it forward or aft, or to one side, by the stays and backstays.
Stay (v. i.) To remain; to continue
in a place; to abide fixed for a space of time; to stop; to stand still.
She would command the hasty sun to stay. -- Spenser.
Stay, I command you; stay and hear me first. -- Dryden.
I stay a little longer, as one stays To cover up the embers that still burn. -- Longfellow.
Stay (v. i.) To continue in a state.
The flames augment, and stay At their full height, then languish to decay. -- Dryden.
Stay (v. i.) To wait; to attend; to forbear to act.
I 'll tell thee all my whole device When I am in my coach, which stays for us. -- Shak.
The father can not stay any longer for the fortune. -- Locke
Stay (v. i.) To dwell; to tarry; to linger. I must stay a little on one action. -- Dryden.
Stay (v. i.) To rest; to depend; to rely; to stand; to insist.
I stay here on my bond. -- Shak.
Ye despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and stay thereon. -- Isa. xxx. 12.
Stay (v. i.) To come to an end; to cease; as, that day the storm stayed. [Archaic]
Here my commission stays. -- Shak.
Stay (v. i.) To hold out in a race or other contest; as, a horse stays well. [Colloq.]
Stay (v. i.) (Naut.) To change tack; as a ship.
Stay (n.) That which serves as a prop; a support. "My only strength and stay." -- Milton.
Trees serve as so many stays for their vines. -- Addison.
Lord Liverpool is the single stay of this ministry. -- Coleridge.
Stay (n.) pl. A corset stiffened with whalebone or other material, worn by women, and rarely by men.
How the strait stays the slender waist constrain. -- Gay.
Stay (n.) Continuance in a place; abode for a space of time; sojourn; as, you make a short stay in this city.
Make haste, and leave thy business and thy care; No mortal interest can be worth thy stay. -- Dryden.
Embrace the hero and his stay implore. -- Waller.
Stay (n.) Cessation of motion or progression; stand; stop.
Made of sphere metal, never to decay Until his revolution was at stay. -- Milton.
Affairs of state seemed rather to stand at a stay. -- Hayward
Stay (n.) Hindrance; let; check. [Obs.]
They were able to read good authors without any stay, if the book were not false. -- Robynson (More's Utopia).
Stay (n.) Restraint of passion; moderation; caution; steadiness; sobriety. [Obs.] "Not grudging that thy lust hath bounds and stays." -- Herbert.
The wisdom, stay, and moderation of the king. -- Bacon.
With prudent stay he long deferred The rough contention. -- Philips.
Stay (n.) (Engin.) Strictly, a part in tension to hold the parts together, or stiffen them.
Stay bolt (Mech.), A bolt or short rod, connecting opposite plates, so as to prevent them from being bulged out when acted upon by a pressure which tends to force them apart, as in the leg of a steam boiler.
Stay busk, A stiff piece of wood, steel, or whalebone, for the front support of a woman's stays. Cf. Busk.
Stay rod, A rod which acts as a stay, particularly in a steam boiler.
Stay (n.) Continuing or remaining in a place or state; "they had a nice stay in Paris"; "a lengthy hospital stay"; "a four-month stay in bankruptcy court".
Stay (n.) The state of inactivity following an interruption; "the negotiations were in arrest"; "held them in check"; "during the halt he got some lunch"; "the momentary stay enabled him to escape the blow"; "he spent the entire stop in his seat" [syn: arrest, check, halt, hitch, stay, stop, stoppage].
Stay (n.) A judicial order forbidding some action until an event occurs or the order is lifted; "the Supreme Court has the power to stay an injunction pending an appeal to the whole Court".
Stay (n.) A thin strip of metal or bone that is used to stiffen a garment (e.g. a corset).
Stay (n.) (Nautical) Brace consisting of a heavy rope or wire cable used as a support for a mast or spar.
Stay (v.) Stay the same; remain in a certain state; "The dress remained wet after repeated attempts to dry it"; "rest assured"; "stay alone"; "He remained unmoved by her tears"; "The bad weather continued for another week" [syn: stay, remain, rest] [ant: change].
Stay (v.) Stay put (in a certain place); "We are staying in Detroit; we are not moving to Cincinnati"; "Stay put in the corner here!"; "Stick around and you will learn something!" [syn: stay, stick, stick around, stay put] [ant: move].
Stay (v.) Dwell; "You can stay with me while you are in town"; "stay a bit longer--the day is still young" [syn: bide, abide, stay].
Stay (v.) Continue in a place, position, or situation; "After graduation, she stayed on in Cambridge as a student adviser"; "Stay with me, please"; "despite student protests, he remained Dean for another year"; "She continued as deputy mayor for another year" [syn: stay, stay on, continue, remain].
Stay (v.) Remain behind; "I had to stay at home and watch the children" [ant: depart, quit, take leave].
Stay (v.) Stop or halt; "Please stay the bloodshed!" [syn: stay, detain, delay].
Stay (v.) Stay behind; "The smell stayed in the room"; "The hostility remained long after they made up" [syn: persist, remain, stay].
Stay (v.) Hang on during a trial of endurance; "ride out the storm" [syn: last out, stay, ride out, outride].
Stay (v.) Stop a judicial process; "The judge stayed the execution order".
Stay (v.) Fasten with stays.
Stay (v.) Overcome or allay; "quell my hunger" [syn: quell, stay, appease].
Stayed (a.) Staid; fixed; settled; sober; -- now written staid. See Staid. -- Bacon. -- Pope.
Stayedly (adv.) Staidly. See Staidly. [R.]
Stayedness (n.) Staidness. [Archaic] -- W. Whately.
Stayedness (n.) Solidity; weight. [R.] -- Camden.
Stayer (n.) One who upholds or supports that which props; one who, or that which, stays, stops, or restrains; also, colloquially, a horse, man, etc., that has endurance, an a race.
Stayer (n.) A person or other animal having powers of endurance or perseverance; "the horse that won the race is a good stayer".
Staylace (n.) A lace for fastening stays.
Stayless (a.) Without stop or delay. -- Mir. for Mag.
Staymaker (n.) One whose occupation is to make stays.
Staynil (n.) (Zool.) The European starling. [Prov. Eng.]
Staysail (n.) (Naut.) Any sail extended on a stay.
Staysail (n.) A fore-and-aft sail set on a stay (as between two masts).
Stayship (n.) (Zool.) A remora, -- fabled to stop ships by attaching itself to them.
Stead (n.) Place, or spot, in general. [Obs., except in composition.] -- Chaucer.
Fly, therefore, fly this fearful stead anon. -- Spenser.
Stead (n.) Place or room which another had, has, or might have. "Stewards of your steads." -- Piers Plowman.
In stead of bounds, he a pillar set. -- Chaucer.
Stead (n.) A frame on which a bed is laid; a bedstead. [R.]
The genial bed, Sallow the feet, the borders, and the stead. -- Dryden.
Stead (n.) A farmhouse and offices. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]
Note: The word is now commonly used as the last part of a compound; as, farmstead, homestead, roadstead, etc.
In stead of, In place of. See Instead.
To stand in stead, or To do stead, To be of use or great advantage.
The smallest act . . . shall stand us in great stead. -- Atterbury.
Here thy sword can do thee little stead. -- Milton.
Stead (v. t.) To help; to support; to benefit; to assist.
Perhaps my succour or advisement meet, Mote stead you much your purpose to subdue. -- Spenser.
It nothing steads us To chide him from our eaves. -- Shak.
Stead (v. t.) To fill place of. [Obs.] -- Shak.
Stead (n.) The post or function properly or customarily occupied or served by another; "can you go in my stead?"; "took his place"; "in lieu of" [syn: stead, position, place, lieu].
Steadfast (a.) Firmly fixed or established; fast fixed; firm. "This steadfast globe of earth." -- Spenser.
Steadfast (a.) Not fickle or wavering; constant; firm; resolute; unswerving; steady. "Steadfast eye." -- Shak.
Abide steadfast unto him [thy neighbor] in the time of his trouble. -- Ecclus. xxii. 23.
Whom resist steadfast in the faith. -- 1 Pet. v. 9.
Steadfast (a.) Marked by firm determination or resolution; not shakable; "firm convictions"; "a firm mouth"; "steadfast resolve"; "a man of unbendable perseverence"; "unwavering loyalty" [syn: firm, steadfast, steady, stiff, unbendable, unfaltering, unshakable, unwavering].
Steadfast (a.) Firm and dependable especially in loyalty; "a steadfast ally"; "a staunch defender of free speech"; "unswerving devotion"; "unswerving allegiance" [syn: steadfast, staunch, unswerving].
Steadfastly (adv.) In a steadfast manner; firmly.
Steadfastly believe that whatever God has revealed is infallibly true. -- Wake.
Steadfastly (adv.) With resolute determination; "we firmly believed it"; "you must stand firm" [syn: firm, firmly, steadfastly, unwaveringly].
Steadfastness (n.) The quality or state of being steadfast; firmness; fixedness; constancy. "The steadfastness of your faith." -- Col. ii. 5.
To prove her wifehood and her steadfastness. -- Chaucer.
Steadfastness (n.) Loyalty in the face of trouble and difficulty [syn: steadfastness, staunchness]
Steadfastness (n.) Steadfast resolution.
Steadily (adv.) In a steady manner.
Steadily (adv.) At a steady rate or pace; "his interest eroded steadily".
Steadily (adv.) In a steady manner; "he could still walk steadily" [syn: steadily, steady] [ant: falteringly, uncertainly, unsteadily].
Steadiness (n.) The quality or state of being steady.
Steadiness is a point of prudence as well as of courage. -- L'Estrange.
Syn: Constancy; resolution; unchangeableness.
Steadiness (n.) Freedom from wavering or indecision; constancy of resolve or conduct; "He trusted her clear steadiness that she would do what she said".
Steadiness (n.) The quality of being steady or securely and immovably fixed in place [syn: steadiness, firmness] [ant: ricketiness, unsteadiness].
Steadiness (n.) The quality of being steady--regular and unvarying [ant: unsteadiness].
Steading (n.) The brans, stables, cattle-yards, etc., of a farm; -- called also onstead, farmstead, farm offices, or farmery. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]