maintainor
English
Etymology
(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French mainteneor, (deprecated template usage) [etyl] French mainteneur.
Noun
maintainor (plural maintainors)
- (law) One who, not being an interested party, maintains a cause depending between others, by furnishing money, etc., to either party.
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “maintainor”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)