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▪ I. suˈstaining, vbl. n.
[f. sustain v. + -ing1.]
The action of the verb sustain, in various senses; sustenance, maintenance, support, etc.
c1383in Eng. Hist. Rev. Oct. (1911) 749 Susteynininge [sic] of felowis bi forme of þe gospel þat ben able to performe þe office of þe gospel in good lyuynge. 1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xvii. ii. (Bodl. MS.) lf. 188 b/1 For sadnes of þe..grounde þe herbe hathe grenenes in rote and susteynynge of þe stalke in þee reringe þereof. c1400Rom. Rose 2765 Though he lye in strawe or dust, In Hoope is alle his susteynyng. c1450Godstow Reg. 393 They graunted to hym and to his wyf..a corrodye of one seruant to ther susteynynge. Ibid. 438 To the susteynyng of the masse of oure lady seynt marye. 1495Naval Acc. Hen. VII (1896) 159 The Susteynyng & fortyfying of the seid dokke & gates of the same. 1541Copland Guydon's Quest. Cyrurg. D ij, Demaunde. Wherfore are the bones made? Answere. Bycause they shulde be the foundacyon of all the body and susteynynge therof. 1593Shakes. Lucr. 1573 Short time seems long, in sorrowes sharp sustayning. 1607Hieron Wks. I. 170 Without Whose gracious sustaining he should soone returne vnto his first nothing. 1726Leoni Alberti's Archit. I. 76/1 Provisions necessary for the sustaining of a Siege. 1850McCosh Div. Govt. ii. i. (1874) 89 Every one knows how needful the atmosphere is for the sustaining of animal and vegetable life. 1893Athenæum 2 Dec. 767/3 The sustaining of her strong personality..is no easy task.
▪ II. suˈstaining, ppl. a.
[f. sustain v. + -ing2.]
a. That sustains, in various senses; supporting.
1605Shakes. Lear iv. iv. 6 Darnell, and all the idle weedes that grow In our sustaining Corne. 1610― Temp. i. ii. 218 On their sustaining garments not a blemish, But fresher then before. 1817Shelley Rev. Islam v. lvi. 6 Melons, and dates, and figs, and many a root Sweet and sustaining. 1820― Prometh. Unb. iii. iii. 91 The many children fair Folded in my sustaining arms. 1828D'Israeli Chas. I, I. vi. 163 Mary of Scotland was long the sustaining hope of France, of Spain, and of Rome. 1855Macaulay Hist. Eng. xv. III. 594 The sustaining power of high religious principle.
b. In technical use.
1839Noad Electricity iii. 105 The introduction of the ‘sustaining’ or ‘constant’ batteries of Messrs. Daniell and Mullins, has..entirely superseded the employment of these simple circles in electro-magnetic investigations. 1842Civil Eng. & Arch. Jrnl. V. 95/1 The meaning of the technical terms of ‘retaining’ and ‘sustaining’ walls was—when a wall was used either to support water or earth artificially put together. a1878Sir G. Scott Lect. Archit. (1879) I. 281 A narrow vault..which is not necessarily of the same curvature as the sustaining arches.
c. sustaining pedal, (a) (see pedal n. 1 b); chiefly U.S.; (b) = damper-pedal s.v. damper 8 a.
1889in Cent. Dict. s.v. Pedal. 1911 H. E. Krehbiel Pianoforte & its Music iii. 47 On some pianofortes there is a third pedal between the other two, called the Tone Sustaining Pedal, the action of which is to withhold the damper from the string or strings struck just before the depression of the pedal. 1922A. H. Lindo Pedalling in Pianoforte Music i. 14 Students..are frequently told that it [sc. the right pedal] should be called, not the ‘loud’, but the ‘sustaining’ pedal. 1923[see accentuator]. 1931G. Jacob Orchestral Technique i. 2 In transcribing pianoforte music the effect of the sustaining pedal is often not taken into account. 1976Gramophone Dec. 1016/2 The Gieseking is..an object-lesson..in how to do without the sustaining-pedal as a prop.
d. sustaining programme, a radio or television programme which is paid for by the broadcasting station. U.S.
1931F. A. Arnold Broadcast Advertising 31 Sustaining programs are those which are prepared and paid for exclusively by the broadcasting station and in which the advertiser has no participation whatever. 1952H. L. Ewbank Broadcasting viii. 128 A sustaining program is neither paid for by a sponsor nor interrupted by spot commercials. 1961S. P. Lawton Mod. Broadcaster 85 The network contracts themselves,..and the agreements for carrying sustaining programs, all play an important part in the make-up of schedules of affiliate stations. 1973J. R. Grimes Mod. Radio Programming xii. 173 Sustaining, non-sponsored.
Hence suˈstainingly adv.
1640G. Abbot Job Paraphr. Argt., A little chinke of light whereby he was able to see, and sustainingly to remind himselfe of God's former favours. 1875Toxie I. vi. 101 Holding my soft gloved hand sustainingly to his side. |