Meanings of sustentation in English

Power of sustentation; the quality of sustaining a weight in the air.

For this civilisation makes no provision excepting temporary sustentation in hospitals, workhouses or prisons.

Colonel Digby's spirits depend much upon female support and sustentation.

Straight planes were tried for a time, but found greatly lacking in the power of sustentation.

Speed not only furnishes sustentation for the airship, but adds to the stability of the machine.

But the writer has perhaps learned to regard two glasses of meridian wine as but a moderate amount of sustentation.

This is done to meet the varying gusts and eddies of the air so that sustentation may be maintained and headway made.

There was no proper sustentation fund; and the result was that nearly all the ministers had to add to their incomes in other ways.

The source, the sustentation, the defence of his being, the endless mediation betwixt his needs and the things that supply them, are all one.

They have three times as many ribs as we possess, and between them are openings into which air or water enters for life sustentation.

When sailing within 30 feet of the ground sustentation is comparatively easy and, should a fall occur, the results are not likely to be serious.

What is the Sustentation Fund?

Sustentation.-Suspensionin the air.

"She wishes you to give her a legal promise of marriage, and sustentation."

I remember one time a week before the Sustentation Fund was due, I was down to one six-pence And of course a collector arrived!

Power of sustentation; the quality of sustaining a weight in the air.