sustentation

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

From Time Magazine Archive

He had prepared a sustentation fund scheme for the support of the seceding ministers, and this was at once put into successful operation.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 7 "Cerargyrite" to "Charing Cross" by Various

Aeroplane, a flying-machine deriving its power of sustentation from the reaction of the air driven downwards by the rapid transit of fixed wings or 'planes' through the air.

From The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 1 A to Amide by Various

There remains, then, as the only intelligible rationale of solar sustentation, Helmholtz's shrinkage theory.

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

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)