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sustentacle|səˈstɛntək(ə)l|
[ad. L. sustentāculum (whence OF. su(b)stentacle, It. sostentacolo, etc.): see sustentaculum.]
†1. That which sustains or upholds; a support.
1432–50tr. Higden (Rolls) II. 219 Bestes and other creatures, whiche were create to the solace of man, to the sustentacle of recreacion. c1450J. Capgrave Life St. Gilbert vi, Whan he slept his hed hing down with-outen sustentacle and touchid sumtyme his brest. 1545Bale Image Both Ch. i. x. (1550) K vij, Strong sustentacles and sure stayes hath God made the vpholders of his true churche. 1642H. More Song of Soul ii. i. iii. xxv, That God's the sustentacle of all Natures. 1653― Conject. Cabbal. (1713) 189 It will be ἕδρα and ὑποβάθρα,..and, being thus a Sustentacle or Foundation, be fitly represented by the term Earth.
2. = sustentaculum.
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