sustenancen.
/ˈsʌstᵻnəns/, U.S. /ˈsəstənəns/ I. Senses relating to the maintenance of condition or state.† 3. The action of upholding or giving one's support to an argument, a cause, etc.; an instance of this. Obsolete.† 5. The action of physically holding someone or something up. Also: an object which provides physical support. Cf. sustentation n. 9a. Obsolete.
1. † c. A meal, a repast. Obsolete.† d. A particular kind of food or drink; a foodstuff. Obsolete.
a. Food and drink as a means of keeping someone alive, or as a source of strength and good health; victuals.
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the world > food and drink > food > [noun] > sustenance or nourishment
foodOE
fosterc1000
fodnethOE
flittinga1225
livenotha1225
nourishingc1300
sustenancec1300
livelihoodc1325
nurture1340
fosteringc1386
livingc1405
nouriturea1425
nutriment?a1425
nutrition?a1425
lifehood1440
reliefa1450
nourishmentc1450
nurshingc1450
sustentationc1450
nutrimentc1485
alimenta1500
sustainmenta1500
bielda1522
creature1540
suck1584
mantiniment1588
fosterment1593
the three M's1938
the world > action or operation > safety > protection or defence > preservation from injury or destruction > [noun] > preservation in being or maintenance > specifically of a person, institution, office, etc.
sustenancec1300
supportation1421
supporting1431
relief1463
support1561
supportance1593
c1300 St. Francis (Laud) 229 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 60 Miseyse huy hadden þare i-novȝ..For defaute of heore sustinaunce and for defaute of bokes.
a1325 St. Mary Magdalen (Corpus Cambr.) l. 282 in C. D'Evelyn & A. J. Mill S.-Eng. Legendary (1956) 312 For it ssolde be[o] ysene Þat he[o] nadde non eorþlich sustenance.
a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) iv. l. 2443 (MED) The cornes and the wynes Ben sustenance to mankinde.
c1400 (c1378) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Laud 581) (1869) B. xx. l. 7 To clothes and to sustenance.
a1470 T. Malory Morte Darthur (Winch. Coll. 13) (1990) I. 339 Many..mervayled that he desyred his sustynaunce for a twelvemonthe.
1493 Chastysing Goddes Chyldern (de Worde) iv. sig. Av/1 It is nedeful in all suche tyme to take bodely sustenaunce..in resonable manere.
1548 H. Latimer Notable Serm. sig. B.v Yf the ploughemenne..,were..negligente..,we shoulde not longe lyue for lacke of sustynaunce.
1595 in D. Beveridge Culross & Tulliallan (1885) I. 133 The puir anes living within the parochin..ar famysched and ar all to die for fault of sustentans.
1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §360 [The Chameleon] feedeth not onely vpon Aire, (though that be his principall Sustenance;) For sometimes hee taketh Flies.
1691 J. Ray Wisdom of God 60 Water is one part, and that not the least of our Sustenance.
1708 J. Philips Cyder i. 24 The starv'ling Brood, Void of sufficient Sustenance, will yield A slender Autumn.
1768 H. Brooke Fool of Quality III. xvi. 289 Having sold all our moveables..for sustenance.
1808 W. Scott in J. G. Lockhart Life W. Scott (1848) I. i. 47 I had all the appetite of a growing boy, but was prohibited any sustenance beyond what was absolutely necessary for the support of nature.
1864 Ld. Tennyson Enoch Arden in Enoch Arden, etc. 31 No want was there of human sustenance, Soft fruitage, mighty nuts, and nourishing roots.
1937 H. Jennings et al. May 12th Mass-observ. Day-surv. i. iv. 338 I had another dream, in which I was providing a hungry rat with sustenance in the form of a pink sweetmeat.
1948 ‘J. Tey’ Franchise Affair xiv.149 He had had breakfast at an abnormally early hour and was now in need of more sustenance than an office cup of tea.
2010 New Yorker 8 Mar. 48/1 A neighborhood so poor that it is known to public-health specialists as a ‘food desert’, because nutritious sustenance is hard to find.
b. More generally: nourishment. Frequently figurative, esp. in spiritual contexts (cf. sense 7).
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1490 W. Caxton tr. Foure Sonnes of Aymon (1885) xix. 437 They ete all a lityll therof, whiche gauf theim grete sustenaunse.
1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry i. f. 18v Those [crops] that require more sustenaunce, are sowen in richer ground.
1671 J. Milton Paradise Regain'd i. 429 Lying is thy sustenance, thy food. View more context for this quotation
1686 W. Hopkins tr. Ratramnus Body & Bl. (1688) Dissert. v. 93 This Spiritual virtue [of the Sacrament]..ministering to it the sustenance of Eternal Life.
1743 E. Young Complaint: Night the Fifth 30 Some reject this Sustenance Divine.
1797 Arminian Mag. May 214 We must take care that we neither surfeit on the one hand, nor famish on the other, the immortal spirits that look up to us for divine sustenance.
1830 J. F. W. Herschel Prelim. Disc. Study Nat. Philos. 65 That dry bones could be a magazine of nutriment,..ready to yield up their sustenance in the form best adapted to the support of life.
a1831 A. Knox Remains (1844) I. 66 The taste once revived, its due sustenance would not be difficult to find.
1849 A. Helps Friends in Council ii. iv. 95 The plants draw most of their sustenance from the air.
1883 Cent. Mag. Apr. 881/1 The poet's rhythm and gift of compression made verse like the foregoing a kind of ambrosial pemmican easily carried for spiritual sustenance.
1920 A. D. Watson Birth through Death 54 The four universal divine physicians of sustenance and restorement.
2008 Church Times 19 Dec. 22/1 Contemporary poets startle us into new perspectives on the miraculous birth, and provide surprising spiritual sustenance.
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the world > food and drink > food > meal > [noun]
mealeOE
meatshiplOE
meal of meatc1330
meal's meatc1330
refectiona1425
eating1483
mealtide1485
repasc1485
sustenancea1500
breakfast1526
repast1530
recreation1538
cooking1804
eat1844
scoff1846
grub1857
khana1859
meetsuk1896
nosh1964
trough1981
a1500 (?a1390) J. Mirk Festial (Gough) (1905) 254 Þay..toke no hede what þat þay haden but a sympull sustenaunce.
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the world > food and drink > food > [noun] > an article or kind of food
meateOE
meatkinOE
foodOE
repast?c1500
refection1502
viand1527
sustenance1528
victual1558
cate1634
gustable1642
comestible1799
1528 T. Paynell tr. Arnaldus de Villa Nova in Joannes de Mediolano Regimen Sanitatis Salerni sig. D iij Nothynge more dangerous than to myngle diuers sustinances to gether.
1615 G. Sandys Relation of Journey 89 Fortie saile of ships..by the trading whereof they bring in that sustenance which the soile affordeth not.
1677 in Ray's Corr. (1848) 128 I am apt to believe that water cannot be a competent sustenance for them.
2.
a. Subsistence, survival; the fact of being maintained in a good or healthy condition, or in working order; esp. the physical survival or maintenance of the body through the consumption of food, drink, etc.
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c1300 11000 Virgins (Laud) l. 68 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 88 (MED) Mete and drinke stilleliche to þe schip huy lieten bringue To þreo ȝeres sustinaunce.
a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xviii. i. 1101 Eueryche beste needeþ mete and norisshynge... And þat is nedeful for sustinaunce and waxynge of þe beste.
c1405 (c1390) G. Chaucer Parson's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) §298 Euery tyme þt a man eteth or drynketh moore than suffiseth to the sustenaunce of his body.
c1425 Myrour to Lewde Men & Wymmen (Harl.) (1981) 175 (MED) Two þinges we haue nede of to oure sustenaunce in þis world: þat is gostliche good & bodiliche good.
1442 in A. H. Thompson Visitations Relig. Houses Diocese Lincoln (1927) III. 230 Mynystre to your sustres in..brede and ale and alle other vitaile necessary to youre sustynaunce..owte of one selare and one kytchyne.
1622 G. de Malynes Consuetudo 2 The..neere hand commodities were not sufficient for their sustenance in some countries, and in other countries were ouer aboundant.
1637 Bk. Common Prayer Church of Scotl. Letany sig. B6 All things necessary to their bodily substenance.
1719 D. Defoe Life Robinson Crusoe 91 That it was so directed purely for my Sustenance, on that wild miserable Place.
1842 A. Combe Physiol. Digestion (ed. 4) 249 Only two-thirds of the quantity now ascertained to be requisite for human sustenance.
1881 R. Winterbotham Numbers (ed. 2) 237 Dependent for his bodily sustenance on the regular offerings of the people.
1922 H. D. Prentiss In Harmony with Life xii. 84 The Universal Intelligence yields all that is required for our sustenance.
2001 Belfast Tel. (Nexis) 29 Aug. The Agreement does require for its sustenance a consent, pro tempore, to support the current constitutional settlement.
b. Those things which are essential to sustain life; the necessities of life; the means of subsistence or survival; (also) a living, a livelihood. In early use frequently in †to find (also win, etc.) (one's) sustenance.
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the world > life > source or principle of life > [noun] > as dependent on sustenance > means of life
bylivec1000
sustenancec1300
sustaining1395
sap1526
livinga1538
maintenance1540
life-breath1597
support1599
subsistence1606
through-bearing1705
c1300 Life & Martyrdom Thomas Becket (Harl. 2277) (1845) 1526 (MED) This seli men aboute him nome for love of Seint Thomas, And fonde hem sustenance [c1300 Laud liflode] ynouȝ.
c1330 (?c1300) Bevis of Hampton (Auch.) l. 3916 Iosian eueriche a day Ȝede aboute þe cite wiþ inne, Here sostenaunse for to winne.
a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) v. l. 122 It is to kinde no plesance That man above his sustienance Unto the gold schal serve and bowe.
a1400 (c1303) R. Mannyng Handlyng Synne (Harl.) l. 1326 Ȝyf þou þurgh wykked ordynaunce Fordost pore mannys sustynaunce Þat aftyrward he may nat lyue.
?a1425 Mandeville's Trav. (Egerton) (1889) 24 In þis deserte I dwell and gase to gete my sustinaunce.
a1450 (?a1300) Richard Coer de Lyon (Caius) (1810) l. 3757 Kyng Richard gaff castels and touns, To hys eerlys and to barouns, To have therinne her sustynaunce.
a1475 J. Fortescue Governance of Eng. (Laud) (1885) 154 Þe clarkes off is chapell..[shall] be rewarded with pencions..ffor þer rewardes or sustenance.
1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 350 To haue sufficient for their necessarie sustenance.
1641 Termes de la Ley 65 He which had the government of any such Mannor or house, was called the Commander, which had nothing to doe to dispose of it, but to the use of the Priorie, and to have onely his sustenance of it according to his degree.
1687 A. Lovell tr. J. de Thévenot Trav. into Levant i. 243 There is..all that is necessary for the Service of the Church, and the sorry sustenance of the Religious.
1710 H. Prideaux Orig. & Right Tithes i. 30 They reap from them a sustenance in Earthly things.
1798 S. T. Coleridge Coll. Lett. (1956) I. 376 A scholastic education..presented insuperable objections, both of mind and body, to my obtaining sustenance for myself and a family by my labour either in the manufactory or the field.
1836 W. Irving Astoria I. 2 It was the fur trade..which gave early sustenance and vitality to the great Canadian provinces.
1864 Ld. Tennyson Enoch Arden in Enoch Arden, etc. 15 She..Gain'd for her own a scanty sustenance.
1916 C. J. Dennis Songs Sentimental Bloke (new ed.) 120 Crust, sustenance; a livelihood.
1990 R. Santhanam Fisheries Sci. Contents Prawn picking—a sustenance for rural women folk.
c. The action of providing food, nourishment, or the means of subsistence to a person, animal, etc.
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the world > food and drink > food > providing or receiving food > [noun]
nourishmentc1330
nurshinga1382
nurshmenta1382
sustenance1389
nutrition?a1425
nutrure?c1450
sustentation1452
nutrifaction?1503
education1533
feeding1547
nourishing1560
nutriture1568
cherishment1593
subsistence1615
nutrication1623
alimentation1626
keeping1644
alition1650
alumnation1658
focillation1658
aliture1721
altion1721
the mind > possession > supply > [noun] > provision of means of support or livelihood
substancec1384
maintenance1389
sustenance1389
sustentation1389
sustaining1395
findingc1400
uphold1439
retainment1449
exhibition?a1475
entertainment?c1475
upholdingc1480
entertaininga1492
sustenation1496
support1561
alimentation1590
alimony1622
enablement1626
subsisting1698
keep1801
life support1852
palimony1977
1389 in J. T. Smith & L. T. Smith Eng. Gilds (1870) 46 Ilke broþer and sistir shal ȝeuen..j.d to his sustenauns and releuyinge.
c1440 (a1349) R. Rolle Eng. Prose Treat. (1921) 11 (MED) Honoure thy fadyre and þi modyre..Bodyly in sustenance, þat þay be helpede and sustaynede in þaire elde, and when þay are vnmyghtty of þaym selfe.
c1475 (a1400) Brut (Douce) 11 Brut..done mow medes for sustinaunce of hym & of his peple.
a1538 T. Starkey Dial. Pole & Lupset (1989) 50 When ther ys of vytayl over lytyl for the necessary sustenans & maynteynyng of the same.
1691 J. Ray Wisdom of God 82 Besides this use of the Pulp or Pericarpium for the guard and benefit of the Seed, it serves also..for the..Sustenance of Man and other Animals.
1763 W. Mildmay Police of France iv. 82 This hospital..must be looked upon..a public nursery for the sustenance of the children of poor people.
1870 J. Yeats Nat. Hist. Commerce 117 In Europe large spaces are covered with food-grasses and other plants, for the sustenance of the inhabitants.
1913 Act 3 & 4 George V c. 20 §74 Payment..to the bankrupt..of such sum out of the estate as they shall think proper for sustenance.
1999 J. Wood Broken Estate 79 Once the Chekhovs had moved to Moscow, Anton calmly assumed the sustenance of his whole family.
d. Australian. Any of various types of assistance provided by the State and given to the unemployed, esp. during the Depression of 1929 and subsequent years; often shortened to susso (see susso n.). Now historical.
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society > society and the community > social attitudes > philanthropy > [noun] > social service provided by (local) government > benefit provided by state
benefit1875
welfare benefit1913
sustenance1917
social security1943
entitlement1945
welfare1968
1917 Examiner (Launceston, Tasmania) 25 Jan. 3/7 There was..a marked opposition to the Repatriation Department paying sustenance to men who make no genuine endeavour to obtain work.
1932 Act (Victoria) No. 4079 Sect. 3, ‘Sustenance’ includes shelter, clothing, and firewood, and references to receiving sustenance include references to obtaining sustenance.
1958 F. Hardy Four-Legged Lottery i. viii. 45 Before the end of 1930, Tom Roberts was forced to register for sustenance—at first a bag of groceries each week, later a small wage for which he had to work.
1982 L. Gardiner Free Kindergarten Union Victoria, 1908–80 v. 90 There are seven children living at home. The father is receiving sustenance. The eldest child of about 17 years occasionally has a day's work.
2011 J. Murphy Decent Provision vii. 174 The unemployed would be called up and required to present for work or else be cut off sustenance.
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the world > action or operation > easiness > aid, help, or assistance > support > support or encouragement > [noun] > supporting or encouraging > specifically a cause, principle, etc.
sustenance1387
friendliness1558
espousing1581
espousement1623
espousal1654
through-bearing1656
1387–8 Petition London Mercers in R. W. Chambers & M. Daunt Bk. London Eng. (1931) 35 He, Nichol Brembre, saide in sustenaunce of his falshede owre lige lordes wille was such that neuer was such.
1649 J. Goodwin Ὑβριστοδίκαι: Obstructours of Justice 48 They furnish themselves withall things necessary for the sustenance and support of the Presbyterian cause.
1836 J. Gilbert Christian Atonem. iv. 137 Upheld not merely by unreasoning instinct, but by a sustenance of their understandings.
4. The action of maintaining something in a particular condition, esp. in a good condition or working order. Now usually with reference to immaterial or abstract objects.
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the world > action or operation > safety > protection or defence > preservation from injury or destruction > [noun] > preservation in being or maintenance
sustenance1389
relevation?1418
sustentation1477
supportation?a1500
sustentmenta1500
upbearing1501
entertainment1568
maintaining1644
1389 in R. W. Chambers & M. Daunt Bk. London Eng. (1931) 54 (MED) In sustenaunce of þe foreseid liȝt & in help of almesdede we wil haue an almesse Box.
a1475 J. Fortescue Governance of Eng. (Laud) (1885) 144 Savynge to hym selff sufficiant ffor the sustenance off his estate.
1586 G. Pettie & B. Yong tr. S. Guazzo Ciuile Conuersat. (rev. ed.) iv. f. 224 They take but small refection, a thing most natural for sustainance of life.
1781 T. Warton Specimen Hist. Oxfordshire (1783) 17 An old donation, for the sustenance of a perpetual lamp to burn before the high-altar in the royal chapel at Islip, under the trust and supervision of the abbats of Westminster.
1894 Times 5 Sept. 10/5 (advt.) As if the engine of mind used up so much vital fuel that it left none for the sustenance of the hair.
1960 R. D. Laing Divided Self iii. 44 Everyday happenings..may become deeply significant in so far as they either contribute to the sustenance of the individual's being or threaten him with non-being.
1993 R. Foley Working without Net i. 43 Many others are concerned with broadly normative issues about the formation and sustenance of beliefs.
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the world > space > relative position > support > [noun]
sustaining1395
sustenancea1398
sustentation?a1425
stinea1475
supportation1496
support1594
supporture1609
fulciment1640
undersustentation1650
a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) I. v. liv. 269 Þe boones of þe feet beþ bounden wiþ diuers synewys..and þat is nedeful to holde þe more strengþe for strong sustinaunce of þe body.
c1430 N. Love Mirror Blessed Life (Brasenose e.9) (1908) 238 So hongeth oure lorde onely by thoo two nayles..with outen sustenaunce of the body.
a1450 tr. Bk. Tribulation (Bodl.) (1983) 103 (MED) ‘Sustinaunce’ is cleped the thinge that vndersettith the and witholte the that thow falle not.
6. A person who or (formerly) thing which provides support or comfort; a means or source of support; (now usually) God or Christ as a source of spiritual support.
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the world > action or operation > safety > protection or defence > preservation from injury or destruction > [noun] > preservation in being or maintenance > one who preserves in being or condition
sustenance?a1430
maintainera1450
supportera1450
founder1548
retainer1548
the world > action or operation > safety > protection or defence > preservation from injury or destruction > [noun] > preservation in being or maintenance > that which
foodOE
breadc1175
sustainera1325
sustenance?a1430
maintainer1551
sustain1567
aliment?1608
alimony1626
?a1430 T. Hoccleve Mother of God l. 91 in Minor Poems (1970) i. 55 By thee, al bountee..In heuene & eerthe..Parforned is, our soules sustenance!
?c1450 tr. Bk. Knight of La Tour Landry (1906) 124 The childe that God gaue me..whiche was all my ioye and sustenaunce.
c1460 (?c1400) Tale of Beryn l. 1176 He toke hir in his armys..And seyd, ‘myne ertly Ioy..my lyvis sustenaunce!’
a1500 (?a1425) tr. Secreta Secret. (Lamb.) 53 Þe maners and þe goodis sustinancez of vertues er to guerdon olde trauailles, to reles wrongys, honurable men to worschippe.
a1500 Hymnal in R. S. Loomis Medieval Stud. in Memory G. S. Loomis (1927) 484 Crist most bene owr very sustinance..Owr thurst also moystyr of fayth defende Yenst grace þat we not trespace.
1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection iii. sig. BBBiii Whiche two that is grace & the sacrament..be all our sustenaunce & supportacion.
1571 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Psalmes of Dauid with Comm. (l. 13) Meate and drinke, which are but sustenances of mans infirmitie.
1614 T. Overbury et al. Characters in Wife now Widdow sig. D2v The sustenance of his discourse is newes.
1755 T. Smollett tr. M. de Cervantes Don Quixote II. iii. iii. 223 My master..is continually calling her his life, his soul, his sustenance and support.
1851 Cottager's Monthly Visitor Dec. 407 Christ is the only sustenance for all!
1897 C. Taylor Sayings Jewish Fathers (ed. 2) 179 God is the..sustenance of the ministering angels.
1905 Homiletic Rev. May 393/1 God is the secret Sustenance.
2009 M. L. Moore-Keish Christian Prayer Today ii. 15 God is our source and sustenance.
7. Support, help, aid; comfort, succour.
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the world > action or operation > easiness > aid, help, or assistance > [noun]
fultumeOE
help971
succour?c1225
abetc1330
succouringc1330
speedc1340
subsidya1387
rescousc1390
chevisancea1400
juvamentc1400
supply1420
aid1430
favour1434
supplying1436
suffrage1445
availa1450
boteningc1450
succurrancec1450
adjuvancea1460
assistance1495
meeda1500
subventiona1500
suppliancea1500
adjutory?a1513
sistancea1513
adminiculation1531
abetment1533
assisting1553
adjument1576
society1586
aidance1593
opitulation1598
secourse1598
second1605
suppeditation1605
assistency1642
auxiliation1657
adjutancy1665
adjuvancy1677
abettal1834
sustenance1839
constructiveness1882
1839 Amer. Phrenol. Jrnl. Nov. 88 Another very appropriate example may be found in the case of a nervous young lady..who looks to others for support and sustenance.
1871 S. Smiles Character i. 6 Simple honesty of purpose..gives him strength and sustenance.
1915 H. E. Fosdick Meaning of Prayer 185 For Peter to know that the Master was interceding for him was..a source of sustenance and strength.
1993 Humanist in Canada Winter 7/1 By religion I shall mean all systems of pretence to the truth that draw their sustenance from the sophistication of folk belief in things unseen, and from written authority.
8. The action of enduring or suffering a tribulation, affliction, etc. Also occasionally: something to be endured; a tribulation. Cf. sustentation n. 2a. Obsolete (rare after Middle English).
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the mind > emotion > calmness > patience > [noun]
thildc950
tholemodec1000
tholemodenessc1000
tholeburdnessa1050
patience?c1225
sustenancea1425
sustentationa1425
supportationa1438
bearing1496
patientnessa1500
supporture1609
bearance1611
uncomplainingness1877
a1425 (?a1387) W. Langland Piers Plowman (London Univ.) (1873) C. iv. l. 208 (MED) Sustienance [c1400 Huntington HM 137 Vnsyttynge suffraunce, hure [sc. Mede's] suster].
a1450 tr. Bk. Tribulation (Bodl.) (1983) 101 ‘Susteyne,’ saith holy writ ‘the sustenaunces [c1450 Harl. sustentacions] of Oure Lord’..it is to say, ‘Susteyne that þat Oure Lord susteyned for the.’
a1500 ( Poems from Pilgrimage of Soul (Egerton) in F. J. Furnivall Wks. T. Hoccleve: Regement Princes (1897) p. xxxv (MED) Þat ye haue mysdon, it is amended Be sustenaunce of purgatory peyne.
1677 I. Barrow Serm. Passion 41 The willing susception, and the cheerful sustenance of the cross.
Compounds
sustenance diet n. = subsistence diet n. at subsistence n. Compounds 2.
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the world > food and drink > food > diet > [noun] > subsistence diet
subsistence diet1864
subsisting diet1865
sustenance diet1876
1876 A. W. Blyth Dict. Hygiène & Public Health 179/2 Sustenance diet.—The mean of certain prison dietaries.
1922 K. Utheim in Stud. Dept. Pediatrics Washington University School of Med. 108 Athrepsia and starvation stools show patient has had less than sustenance diet.
2009 R. W. Firestone & J. Catlett Ethics Interpersonal Relationships 181 Volunteers were..kept on a minimum sustenance diet.
sustenance money n. = subsistence money n. 2.
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society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > grants and allowances > [noun] > allowance > for specific purpose > for food or maintenance
meatcorn1264
corrody1430
sustentation1461
dieta1483
diet-money1519
board wages1539
viaticum1594
subsistence money1693
table allowance1762
board-money1809
subsistence allowance1824
beer money1827
in-maintenance1836
subsistence allowance1848
conred1876
sustenance money1905
rider1975
1775 J. Burns Hist. & Chronological Remembrancer 393 All the Jews in England were..banished the realm, having only sustenance-money allowed.
1853 Times 26 May 7/5 Sustenance money had been left for him at the gaol.
1905 Edinb. Rev. Oct. 468 The sustenance-money which was allowed to many émigrés.
2009 M. Cohen Sisterhood 4 The sustenance money still flows.
Derivatives
ˈsustenanceless adj. offering or containing no sustenance.
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the world > food and drink > food > qualities of food > [adjective] > nourishing > not
mistrum?c1225
leanc1325
weak1382
hungry1561
excremental1576
unnourishable1590
low1603
excrementitial1620
heartless1620
excrementitious1623
inalimental1626
sustenanceless1630
lifeless1633
excrementious1636
oligotrophic1659
meagre1663
unnutritive1700
innutritious1796
unnutritious1821
innutrient1822
unalimentary1822
unnourishing1826
innutritive1844
foodless1916
1630 tr. G. Botero Relations Famous Kingdomes World (rev. ed.) 87 You have sauce and no sustenance; and so mich God dich you with your sustenancelesse sauce.
1935 W. Faulkner Golden Land in Amer. Mercury May 4/2 They lived upon the air alone and had been merely leaned intact against the sustenanceless lavawall.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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