sustentation

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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

They make the peopling of the earth, with its successive races of inhabitants, a series of events altogether different from the operation of physical laws in the sustentation of existing species.

From The Plurality of Worlds by Hitchcock, Edward

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