sustentate
English
Verb
sustentate (third-person singular simple present sustentates, present participle sustentating, simple past and past participle sustentated)
- (obsolete, transitive) To sustain.
- 1861, Charles Reade, The Cloister and the Hearth, Chapter II:
- But he was only the first of a long list of holy and hard-hitting ones who have, by this divine restorative, been sustentated, fortified, corroborated, and consoled.
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Latin
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