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What is a sustentation?

What is a sustentation? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. The act, or the result of sustaining; sustainment.
  2. The aggregate of the functions by which a living organism is maintained in a normal condition of weight and growth.
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Deriving its power of sustentation from the gas contained in the gas-bag, the free balloon is spherical in form.
But the writer has perhaps learned to regard two glasses of meridian wine as but a moderate amount of sustentation.
He had prepared a sustentation fund scheme for the support of the seceding ministers.
Twenty per cent of the sustentation fee shall be paid into a specially held account for the purposes of campaigning.
This defection from within not made up by sustentation from without.
The one concerns the laws of sustentation of the system, the other the laws of evolution.

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