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
The revenues confiscated were those used for “the finding, maintaining or sustentation of any priest or of any anniversary, or obit, lamp, light or other such things.”
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 1 "Gichtel, Johann" to "Glory" 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)
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
