To stand firm; to be fixed and unmoved; to stay; to continue steadfastly; especially, to continue fixed in a course of conduct against opposing motives; to persevere; -- sometimes conveying an unfavorable notion, as of doggedness or obstinacy.
To save the current state of a COM object, such as to a file. In OLE DB, only data source objects can be persisted. Objects can be restored from their persisted state, saving initialization steps.