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intertenere

intertenere [ML; cf. OF entretenir] , to maintain, sustain: a (Eng.); b (Sc.). a 1462 pro bono ~ende et augmentacionis mercandise (Tract.) Foed. XI 497; 1516 (v. Helveticus).  b 1518 sumptibus suis propriis alendi et ~endi (Tract.) Foed. XIII 646; 1534 (v. intertentio); 1567 ob ~endam politiam et bonum ordinem (Carta Jac. VI) Scot. Grey Friars II 235.

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