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Sustentative. World English Historical Dictionary

Sustentative. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1919, rev. 2024. Sustentative a. [f. L. sustentāt-: see SUSTENTATE and -IVE.]

1   1.  Having the quality of sustaining.

2 1640.  Jackson, Creed, XI. vi. § 4. Unless our Being be supported and strengthned by his power sustentative.

3 1652.  Urquhart, Jewel, 278. Dialogismes, displaying their Interrogatory part with communicatively-Pysmatick and Sustentative flourishes.

4   2.  Phys. Pertaining to sustentation.

5 1877.  Huxley, Anat. Inv. Anim., Introd. 24. Each cell … must needs retain its sustentative functions so long as it grows.

6 1880.  J. Cook, Boston Monday Lect., 203. Sustentative, generative and correlative functions in the lower forms of life are exerted indifferently.

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