Permaneo, permanes, pen. cor. permansi, permansum, perma nère. Plin. iun.To abide till the end, or till al be done: to remaine stil: to continue.Innuba permanco.Ouid.I remaine vmnarried.Mos ille Athenis iam Cecrope permansit. Cice. That fashion contiuued at Athens euer since Cecrops time.Status hic permansit in multos annos.Ouid.Tumor ille permansit.Ouid.Amicitiæ stabiles permanent.Cic. Permanere, per translationem. Ter. To continue: to abide.Permanere in amicitia. Cæs. Permanere in armis. Cæs. In incœpto permanere. Luceius Ciceroni. To continue in his purpose that he entcrprised.Permanere in eadem mente.Cic.To bee in the same minde still.Permanere in officio. Cice. To continue in due obedience.Permanere in proposito susceptoq; consilto.Cic.Permanere in sententia.Cic.To be of the opinion still.Permanere in tristitia. Cæs. In mea erga te voluntate permaneo.Cic.Firmum & stabile illud permansurum est.Cic.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
per-mănĕo, mansi, mansum, 2, v. n., to stay to the end; to hold out, last, continue, endure, remain; to persist, persevere (class.; syn.: persto, persevero). (a).Absol.: ut quam maxime permaneant diuturna corpora, Cic. Tusc. 1, 45, 108; id. Fin. 2, 27, 87: ira tam permansit diu, Ter. Hec. 3, 1, 25; Sall. J. 5, 5: Athenis jam ille mos a Cecrope permansit, Cic. Leg. 2, 25, 63.—With ad: verris octo mensium incipit salire: permanet, ut id recte facere possit, ad trimum, Varr. R. R. 2, 4, 8: perdiuturna, permanens ad longinquum et immensum paene tempus, Cic. N. D. 2, 33, 85; so, ad posteros nostros, Decret. Tergest. 2, 26: solus ad extremos permanet ille rogos, Ov. A. A. 2, 120: ad numerum, Cic. N. D. 1, 37, 105.— With in and acc.: ultima quae mecum seros permansit in annos, Ov. Tr. 4, 10, 73.— With adv. quo: quo neque permaneant animae neque corpora nostra, Lucr. 1, 122; v. Lachm. ad h. l.—(b). With in and abl.: Seleucus in maritimā orā permanens, Liv. 37, 21: in voluntate, Cic. Fam. 5, 2, 10: in pristinā sententiā, id. Att. 1, 20, 3: in proposito susceptoque consilio, id. Off. 1, 31, 112: in officio, Caes. B. G. 5, 4.— (g). With gen.: virtus sola permanet tenoris sui, Sen. Ep. 76, 19.—II.To abide in a way, rule, or mode of life, to live by, to devote one's life to (eccl. Lat.): in proposito cordis, Vulg. Act. 11, 23: in gratiā Dei, id. ib. 13, 43: in fide, id. ib. 14, 21: in peccato, id. Rom. 6, 1: in carne, id. Phil. 1, 24: in eādem regulā, id. ib. 3, 16.