English

Noun

abider ‎(plural abiders)

1. (obsolete) One who abides, or continues. [First attested around 1350 to 1470.]^[1]
   • c. 1583, Philip Sidney; Evelyn Shirley Shuckburgh, An Apologie for Poetrie, published 1891, page 1:

     Hee sayde, they were the Maisters of warre, and ornaments of peace : speedy goers, and strong abiders : triumphers both in Camps and Courts.

2. One who dwells; a resident. [First attested around 1350 to 1470.]^[1]
   • c. 1610, John Speed; Eva Germaine Rimington Taylor, An atlas of Tudor England and Wales: 40 plates from John Speed's pocket atlas, published 1951, page 27:

     But although it had everything 'to content the purse, the heart, the eye', there was a local proverb saying: 'What is best for the Abider is worst for the [Traveler]

References

1. 1 2 Lesley Brown (editor), The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, 5th edition (Oxford University Press, 2003 [1933], ISBN 978-0-19-860575-7), page 4

Anagrams

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