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 Jones, Jesse H.

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

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)

Also of an old Monasterie in the Citie of Yorke, he founded an Hospitall for the sustentation of poore persons and dedicated it to S. Peter.

From The Lives of the III Normans, Kings of England: William the First, William the Second, Henrie the First by Hayward, John