Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A prop; support; foundation.
- noun Same as
sustentaculum .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete Sustenance.
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- noun obsolete
sustenance
Etymologies
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Latin sustentaculum. See sustentation.
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Examples
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And the very sparkles after the fire is out of them doe serue in stead of stones to make walles and vautes: for being once colde they will neuer dissolue or breake, except they be cut with some iron toole, and the vautes that are made of them are so light that they need no sustentacle, or prop to holde them vp, and they will endure continually very faire and whole.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of The English Nation, Vol. XII., America, Part I. Richard Hakluyt 1584
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