Word Meanings - SUSTAINMENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database
The act of sustaining; maintenance; support. Milton. Lowell.
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F. soutenir (the French prefix is properly fr. L. subtus below, fr. sub under), L. sustinere; pref. sus- + tenere to hold. See 1. To keep from falling; to bear; to uphold; to support; as, a foundation sustains the superstructure; a beast sustains - SUPPORTABLE
Capable of being supported, maintained, or endured; endurable. -- Sup*port"a*ble*ness, n. -- Sup*port"a*bly, adv. - SUPPORTATION
Maintenance; support. Chaucer. Bacon. - SUSTAINABLE
Capable of being sustained or maintained; as, the action is not sustainable. - SUPPORTFUL
Abounding with support. Chapman. - SUPPORTLESS
Having no support. Milton. - SUSTAINMENT
The act of sustaining; maintenance; support. Milton. Lowell. - MAINTENANCE
An officious or unlawful intermeddling in a cause depending between others, by assisting either party with money or means to carry it on. See Champerty. Wharton. Cap of maintenance. See under Cap. (more info) 1. The act of maintaining; sustenance; - SUPPORT
convey, in LL., to support, sustain; sub under + portare to carry. 1. To bear by being under; to keep from falling; to uphold; to sustain, in a literal or physical sense; to prop up; to bear the weight of; as, a pillar supports a structure; an - SUPPORTER
A knee placed under the cathead. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, supports; as, oxygen is a supporter of life. The sockets and supporters of flowers are figured. Bacon. The saints have a . . . supporter in all their miseries. South. - MILTONIAN
Miltonic. Lowell. - SUSTAINER
One who, or that which, sustains. Waterland. - SUPPORTMENT
Support. Sir H. Wotton. - MILTONIC
Of, pertaining to, or resembling, Milton, or his writings; as, Miltonic prose. - SUSTAINED
Held up to a certain pitch, degree, or level; uniform; as, sustained pasion; a sustained style of writing; a sustained note in music. - SUPPORTRESS
A female supporter. You are my gracious patroness and supportress. Massinger. - SUPPORTANCE
Support. Shak. - INSUPPORTABLE
Incapable of being supported or borne; unendurable; insufferable; intolerable; as, insupportable burdens; insupportable pain. -- In`sup*port"a*ble*ness, n. -- In`sup*port"a*bly, adv. - UNSUPPORTABLE
Insupportable; unendurable. -- Un`sup*port"a*ble*ness, n. Bp. Wilkins. -- Un`sup*port"a*bly, adv. - HAMILTON PERIOD
A subdivision of the Devonian system of America; -- so named from Hamilton, Madison Co., New York. It includes the Marcellus, Hamilton, and Genesee epochs or groups. See the Chart of Geology.