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
Perhaps a little sustentation of life to the country will be obtained by a wretched peace.
From Lord Chatham His Early Life and Connections by Rosebery, Archibald Phillip Primrose
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 Fishmongers had a grant of power to hold land "for the sustentation of the poor men and women of the said commonalty."
From Memorials of Old London Volume I by Ditchfield, P. H. (Peter Hampson)
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
