sustentation

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Soon Premier Mussolini ascended this mighty sustentation, planted himself on an imperial-seeming musnud.

From Time Magazine Archive

The presence of God in his world was thus to be evinced by his regular sustentation of its natural order, rather than by irregular occurrences, such as the deluge, in seeming contravention of it.

From Miracles and Supernatural Religion by Whiton, James Morris

Aeroplane, a flying-machine deriving its power of sustentation from the reaction of the air driven downwards by the rapid transit of fixed wings or 'planes' through the air.

From The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 1 A to Amide by Various

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)

He founded a goodlie hospitall in the citie of Yorke, called S. Leonards, for the sustentation and finding of the poore as well brethren as sisters.

From Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6): England (2 of 12) William Rufus by Holinshed, Raphael