offstand

verb

Etymology

From Middle English ofstonden, from Old English ofstandan (“to remain, persist, continue; restore, make restitution”), from Proto-Germanic *afstandaną, *afstāną, equivalent to off- + stand. Cognate with Dutch afstaan (“to cede, yield, relinquish”), German abstehen (“to project, stick out, stand away”), Swedish avstå (“to refrain, desist, give up, relinquish”).

inherited from *afstandaną✻
inherited from ofstandan — “to remain, persist, continue; restore, make restitution”
inherited from ofstonden

Definitions

1
To endure against
To endure against; stand or ward off; defend against; withstand; resist.
- Those who are involved in long enmities sacrifice continually to the hidit in order to offstand such affliction.
- […] announced in its issue of October tenth that New Jersey's Governor, Livingston, had received word of the intended attack and was planning measures to offstand it.
- […] and hope to build with such permanency and force as to offstand the headwaters which will surely come again.
2
To offset
To offset; compensate for; make restitution for.
- To offstand the dire effects of its hoarding policy, the Secretary, from March 4, 1885, began lending money to the national banks — that is he deposited it in those institutions.
- Smith paid seven thousand pounds for the copyright, though it was not a financial success ; George Eliot, in fact, afterward gave a short story, "Brother Jacob," to offstand the publisher's loss.
3
Offset
Offset; restitution.
- […] but there is partially in a few instances where the person has two-thirds of the away-going crop, and where he has that two-thirds, generally their agreement is that they do not pay any offstand; they have it clear.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA