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self-suˈstained, a.
[self- 2.]
Sustained by one's own power or efforts; (rarely in a physical sense) held up without support.
1742Young Nt. Th. viii. 926 False pleasure from abroad her joys imports; Rich from within, and self-sustain'd, the true. 1768–74Tucker Lt. Nat. (1834) I. 538 Whether we suppose this chain upholden by an intelligent being, or self-sustained. 1845A. Jameson Early Ital. Painters, M. Angelo II. 65 note, The dome of the Pantheon, which appears self-sustained. 1870J. H. Newman Gramm. Assent ii. vi. 160 We assented to them, we still assent, though we have forgotten what the warrant was. They are self-sustained in our minds. 1873B. Harte Fiddletown 11 A certain self-sustained air which is apt to come upon children who are left much to themselves.
So self-suˈstaining ppl. a. (hence self-suˈstainingly adv.); self-suˈstainment; self-ˈsustenance; self-sustenˈtation.
1844Emerson Emancip. Negroes 28 The *self-sustaining class of inventive and industrious men. 1868Rep. U.S. Comm. Agric. (1869) 354 The earth-banks..should..be sufficiently sloped to be self-sustaining.
1905Tuckwell Remin. Rad. Parson xii. 173 Healthily, happily, *self-sustainingly at work.
1840Darley Beaum. & Fl.'s Wks. I. Introd. p. xxviii, Where is the single character delineated by our authors with the force,..and uniform *self-sustainment, of any principal portrait by Ben? 1867Lowell Rousseau Wks. 1890 II. 256 Souls capable of self-sustainment.
1862Trollope Orley F. xlv, Though she was..frail-looking, there was within her a great power of *self-sustenance. a1866J. Grote Exam. Utilit. Philos. xi. (1870) 174 Impartial nature..in proportion to the freedom of attack by others, has made difficulty of self-sustenance.
1845Maurice in Encycl. Metrop. II. 617/1 Whether the life in each plant..must be considered as the active or only the passive instrument in *self-sustentation. 1890H. Spencer in Pop. Sci. Monthly May 22 During early life, before self-sustentation has become possible. |