sustentation

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

From Time Magazine Archive

The revenues confiscated were those used for “the finding, maintaining or sustentation of any priest or of any anniversary, or obit, lamp, light or other such things.”

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 1 "Gichtel, Johann" to "Glory" by Various

And any who were absent without lawful cause shall forfeit one pound of wax to the sustentation of the said great candle.

From The Thirteenth Greatest of Centuries by Walsh, James J. (James Joseph)

It would seem that the system by which he maintained them was that he assigned to each a region of which the inhabitants were responsible for its manning and its sustentation.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 5 English History by Various

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