sustentation

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Soon Premier Mussolini ascended this mighty sustentation, planted himself on an imperial-seeming musnud.

From Time Magazine Archive

The meteoric, or "dynamical," theory of solar sustentation was expounded by him before the British Association in 1853.

From A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition by Clerke, Agnes M. (Agnes Mary)

Thorold Rogers justly remarks that the strength of communism lies in the misconduct of administrations, the sustentation of odious and unjust privileges and the support of what are called vested interests.

From The Railroad Question A historical and practical treatise on railroads, and remedies for their abuses by Larrabee, William

There are two funds: one subscribed expressly for the building of churches, the other limited to the "sustentation" of incumbents.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 340, February, 1844 by Various

The conditions of their sustentation and generation being given, which no difference of physical circumstances can render incredible, the race may, so far as we can see, go on forever.

From The Plurality of Worlds by Hitchcock, Edward