sustentation

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

From Time Magazine Archive

The fundamental question that had to be answered in that book was the question of the "sustentation" of the new Church.

From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 10 by Rudd, John

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

But the writer has perhaps learned to regard two glasses of meridian wine as but a moderate amount of sustentation.

From Dr. Wortle's School by Trollope, Anthony

We regard it as another law, that the distribution of the sustentation money entrusted to the Church should be a distribution, not discretionary, but fixed by definite enactment.

From Leading Articles on Various Subjects by Davidson, John