sustentation

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

And Brahman has been defined as that from which there proceed the origination, sustentation, and retractation of this world.

From The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Sankaracarya Sacred Books of the East, Volume 1 by Thibaut, George

The revenue of the church increased; the grant from the sustentation fund was in 1901 only �75, but from 1903 onwards it was �167.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 1 "Franciscans" to "French Language" by Various

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