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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of subvention.

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Examples

  • For this very reason there are thousands of learned societies organized and maintained by volunteers in Europe and America, -- some having developed to such a degree that all the resources of subventioned societies, and all the wealth of millionaires, would not buy their treasures.

    The Conquest of Bread Peter Kropotkin

  • And he subventioned the first special publication devoted to radioactivity and its applications, as a journal under the name Radium, edited by J. Danne.

    Pierre Curie 1923

  • In 1905 (last year of the Concordat) the diocese had 371,019 inhabitants; 41 pastorates; 293 succursal parishes; 23 vicariates subventioned by the State.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip 1840-1916 1913

  • Pamiers had a population of 210,527, with 22 parishes, 321 mission churches, 20 vicariates subventioned by the State.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip 1840-1916 1913

  • Diocese of Grenoble had a population of 601,940 souls, with 51 parishes, 530 succursales, and 87 curacies subventioned by the State.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913

  • These papers, if they were not subventioned, would print abominations such as no English journalist could conceive; they would alienate our best friends in the long run.

    Fountains in the Sand Rambles Among the Oases of Tunisia Norman Douglas 1910

  • If good fortune, such as a watch or a freshly subventioned student, fell into their mouths, they swallowed it like honest, sensible souls; but they did not make reprehensible adventure the main object of their evening.

    The Belovéd Vagabond William John Locke 1896

  • The Academy has been subventioned by the State to the extent of three hundred thousand pounds, and that money has been employed in arrogant commercialism.

    Modern Painting 1892

  • The hatred of artistic England for the Academy proceeds from the knowledge that the Academy is no true centre of art, but a mere commercial enterprise protected and subventioned by Government.

    Modern Painting 1892

  • (mission churches), and 13 curacies subventioned by the State.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery 1840-1916 1913

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