'Maintained' definitions:

Definition of 'maintained'

adjective

Kept in good condition [syn: kept up(p), maintained, well-kept]

adjective

Continued in your keeping or use or memory; "in...the retained pattern of dancers and guests remembered" [syn: retained, maintained]

From: GCIDE

Maintain \Main*tain\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Maintained; p. pr. & vb. n. Maintaining.] [OE. maintenen, F. maintenir, properly, to hold by the hand; main hand (L. manus) + F. tenir to hold (L. tenere). See Manual, and Tenable.]
1. To hold or keep in any particular state or condition; to support; to sustain; to uphold; to keep up; not to suffer to fail or decline; as, to maintain a certain degree of heat in a furnace; to maintain a fence or a railroad; to maintain the digestive process or powers of the stomach; to maintain the fertility of soil; to maintain present reputation. [1913 Webster]
2. To keep possession of; to hold and defend; not to surrender or relinquish. [1913 Webster]
God values . . . every one as he maintains his post. --Grew. [1913 Webster]
3. To continue; not to suffer to cease or fail. [1913 Webster]
Maintain talk with the duke. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
4. To bear the expense of; to support; to keep up; to supply with what is needed. [1913 Webster]
Glad, by his labor, to maintain his life. --Stirling. [1913 Webster]
What maintains one vice would bring up two children. --Franklin. [1913 Webster]
5. To affirm; to support or defend by argument. [1913 Webster]
It is hard to maintain the truth, but much harder to be maintained by it. --South. [1913 Webster]
Syn: To assert; vindicate; allege. See Assert. [1913 Webster]