sustentation
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Soon Premier Mussolini ascended this mighty sustentation, planted himself on an imperial-seeming musnud.
From Time Magazine Archive
There remains, then, as the only intelligible rationale of solar sustentation, Helmholtz's shrinkage theory.
From A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition by Clerke, Agnes M. (Agnes Mary)
Prohibition of all interference on the part of employers with the management of the relief and sustentation funds of the working classes, to whom the sole control of these funds should be left.
From Contemporary Socialism by Rae, John
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
Deriving its power of sustentation from the gas contained in the gas-bag, the free balloon is spherical in form.
From The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 3 Atrebates to Bedlis by Various
