abide2 (abid)

t. (This word in the sense of 'suffer for' does not occur much earlier than Shakspere's time. It is a corruption of ME. abyen, pay for, due to confusion with abide1, wait for (as if that sense were equivalent to 'endure'): see further under abyl, and cf. abidel, v. t., 4.] To pay the price or penalty of; suffer for. If it be found so, some will dear abide it. Shak ., J. C., iii. 2. Ah me! they little know How dearly I abide that boast so vain. Milton , P. L., iv. 86. with the new moon of March. Abib seems to have been the designation of a season rather than the name of a month. After the Babylonish captivity it was also called Nisan (Neh. ii. 1).