There are two funds: one subscribed expressly for the building of churches, the other limited to the "sustentation" of incumbents. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 340, February, 1844] Reference
Further, seeing it is not enough to the sustentation of a. From Wordnik.com. [Leviathan] Reference
Colonel Digby's spirits depend much upon female support and sustentation. From Wordnik.com. [The Ladies A Shining Constellation of Wit and Beauty] Reference
In Flanders there are permanent funds, &c. for the sustentation of the poor. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 397, November 7, 1829] Reference
All the acts of the divine nature on the human were acts of sustentation, whereby he acted these things. From Wordnik.com. [The Sermons of John Owen] Reference
All those that follow, in subsistence, sustentation, with all others that are communicative, do ensue thereon. From Wordnik.com. [Christologia] Reference
They have three times as many ribs as we possess, and between them are openings into which air or water enters for life sustentation. From Wordnik.com. [Life in a Thousand Worlds] Reference
Its second object is the creature as a creature; and its act is called conservation, or sustentation, as if it was a continuance of creation. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of James Arminius, Vol. 2] Reference
He founded a goodlie hospitall in the citie of Yorke, called S. Leonards, for the sustentation and finding of the poore as well brethren as sisters. From Wordnik.com. [Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6): England (2 of 12) William Rufus] Reference
The work of the Spirit in the old creation, in reference to the heavens, to the earth, to man, and to the continued sustentation of the universe, is fully explained, iv. From Wordnik.com. [Pneumatologia] Reference
Every organized natural body, in the provisions which it contains for its sustentation and propagation, testifies a care, on the part of the Creator, expressly directed to these purposes. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 403, December 5, 1829] Reference
And so when the hygrometric gauge falls below the point of actual sustentation, the plant shrinks and dies; while, without the necessary conditions, it would never have made its appearance. From Wordnik.com. [Life: Its True Genesis] Reference
And the first of these is, that hereby there is communicated unto us, and we do derive, supplies of spiritual life, sustentation, motion, strength in grace, and perseverance from him continually. From Wordnik.com. [Meditations and Discourses on the Glory of Christ] Reference
"She wishes you to give her a legal promise of marriage, and sustentation.". From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Memoirs of Jacques Casanova] Reference
Meteoric hypothesis of solar sustentation, 310; of planetary formation, 311. From Wordnik.com. [A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition] Reference
Mayer, Julius R., tidal friction, 272; meteoric sustentation of sun's heat, 310. From Wordnik.com. [A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition] Reference
Manifest simony they had christened 'procuration' and gluttony 'sustentation,' as if. From Wordnik.com. [The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio] Reference
Straight planes were tried for a time, but found greatly lacking in the power of sustentation. From Wordnik.com. [Flying Machines: Construction and Operation] Reference
Speed not only furnishes sustentation for the airship, but adds to the stability of the machine. From Wordnik.com. [Flying Machines: Construction and Operation] Reference
BS: By all means, if BioWare can manage a decent sustentation of the game's humour I'll be pleased. From Wordnik.com. [Cubed3.com News] Reference
For this civilisation makes no provision excepting temporary sustentation in hospitals, workhouses or prisons. From Wordnik.com. [London's Underworld] Reference
'Brahman is that whence the origination and so on (i.e. the sustentation and reabsorption) of this world proceed.'. From Wordnik.com. [The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Sankaracarya Sacred Books of the East, Volume 1] Reference
But the writer has perhaps learned to regard two glasses of meridian wine as but a moderate amount of sustentation. From Wordnik.com. [Dr. Wortle's School] Reference
Brahman has been defined as that from which there proceed the origination, sustentation, and retractation of this world. From Wordnik.com. [The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Sankaracarya Sacred Books of the East, Volume 1] Reference
Gervais Beresford (1862-65), fell a large portion of the task of providing for the future organization and sustentation of the. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize] Reference
The source, the sustentation, the defence of his being, the endless mediation betwixt his needs and the things that supply them, are all one. From Wordnik.com. [A Dish of Orts : Chiefly Papers on the Imagination, and on Shakespeare] Reference
When sailing within 30 feet of the ground sustentation is comparatively easy and, should a fall occur, the results are not likely to be serious. From Wordnik.com. [Flying Machines: Construction and Operation] Reference
Of this Brahman, thus already known (on the basis of etymology), the origination, sustentation, and reabsorption of the world are collateral marks. From Wordnik.com. [The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Ramanuja — Sacred Books of the East, Volume 48] Reference
But any praise so obtained must be an injustice to the public, for whose instruction, and not for the sustentation of the author, such notices are intended. From Wordnik.com. [Autobiography of Anthony Trollope] Reference
February 1st, 1409; and, since he had received nothing for their sustentation, an assignment of five hundred marks a year was made to him from the duties of skins and wool. From Wordnik.com. [Henry of Monmouth, Volume 1 Memoirs of Henry the Fifth] Reference
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