verb
- simple past tense and past participle of keep.
adjective
- having the expression of principles, ideas, etc., controlled, dominated, or determined by one whose money provides support: a kept press; a kept writer.
verb
- the past tense and past participle of keep
- kept woman censorious a woman maintained by a man as his mistress
adj.mid-14c., from un- (1) “not” + past participle of keep (v.). past tense of keep (v.).