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)
And Brahman has been defined as that from which there proceed the origination, sustentation, and retractation of this world.
From The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Sankaracarya Sacred Books of the East, Volume 1 by Thibaut, George
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
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)
