sustentation
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Soon Premier Mussolini ascended this mighty sustentation, planted himself on an imperial-seeming musnud.
From Time Magazine Archive
The problem is,—To find an Ultimate Ground, a Final Cause, which shall be adequate to account for the existence and sustentation of this Universe.
From Know the Truth; A critique of the Hamiltonian Theory of Limitation by Jesse H. Jones
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 Agnes M. (Agnes Mary) Clerke
The conditions of their sustentation and generation being given, which no difference of physical circumstances can render incredible, the race may, so far as we can see, go on forever.
From The Plurality of Worlds by Edward Hitchcock
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 James J. (James Joseph) Walsh
