1. 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. 2. To fill place of. [Obs.] Shak.
Steadfast
(Stead"fast) a. [Stead + fast, that is, fast in place.] [Written also stedfast.]
1. Firmly fixed or established; fast fixed; firm. "This steadfast globe of earth." Spenser.
2. 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. Steadfastly
(Stead"fast*ly), adv. In a steadfast manner; firmly.
Steadfast believe that whatever God has revealed is infallibly true.
Wake. Steadfastness
(Stead"fast*ness), 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. Steadily
(Stead"i*ly) adv. In a steady manner.
Steadiness
(Stead"i*ness), 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.
Steading
(Stead"ing) n. The brans, stables, cattle-yards, etc., of a farm; — called also onstead, farmstead,
farm offices, or farmery. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]
Steady
(Stead"y) a. [Compar. Steadier ; superl. Steadiest.] [Cf. AS. stedig sterile, barren, stæig,
steady (in gestæig), D. stedig, stadig, steeg, G. stätig, stetig. See Stead, n.]
1. Firm in standing or position; not tottering or shaking; fixed; firm. "The softest, steadiest plume." Keble.
Their feet steady, their hands diligent, their eyes watchful, and their hearts resolute.
Sir P. Sidney. 2. Constant in feeling, purpose, or pursuit; not fickle, changeable, or wavering; not easily moved or persuaded
to alter a purpose; resolute; as, a man steady in his principles, in his purpose, or in the pursuit of an
object.
3. Regular; constant; undeviating; uniform; as, the steady course of the sun; a steady breeze of wind.
Syn. — Fixed; regular; uniform; undeviating; invariable; unremitted; stable.
Steady rest (Mach), a rest in a turning lathe, to keep a long piece of work from trembling.
