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Definition of Stand still

1. Verb. Remain in place; hold still; remain fixed or immobile. "Traffic stood still when the funeral procession passed by"

Definition of Stand still

1. Noun. (obsolete spelling of standstill) ¹

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Stand Still

Literary usage of Stand still

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Odyssey of Homer by Homer (1851)
"I stand at the vestibule, fand if thou wilt give aught; but if not, I will not stand still, for we have not come to live here.f ..."

2. Specimens of American Poetry: With Critical and Biographical Notices. In by Samuel Kettell (1829)
"JOSHUA COMMANDING THE SUN AMD MOON TO stand still. THE day rose clear on Gibeon. Her high towers Flash'd the red sunbeams gloriously back, ..."

3. Buddhist Legends by Buddhaghosa (1921)
"Do you also stand still!" Then to the robber Angulimala occurred the ... But this monk says, even in the act of walking,' I stand still, Angulimala. ..."

4. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1887)
"... which did not perceive that to stand still was to be crushed by the predatory tribes whom our delay would encourage to coalesce and rise up against us. ..."

5. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1880)
"... the matters of others, but such a motion as the heavenly bodies do keep, which so move as they seem ever to stand still, and never disturb one another. ..."

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