sustentation

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

From Time Magazine Archive

And meats ought rather to be taken for sustentation of Nature then for prouocation or motion of thys feeble and Transitorye Fleshe?”

From The Palace of Pleasure Volume 3 by Painter, William

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

There are two funds: one subscribed expressly for the building of churches, the other limited to the "sustentation" of incumbents.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 340, February, 1844 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