Sustain

sus-tān′, v.t. to hold up: to bear: to maintain: to relieve: to prove: to sanction: to prolong.— adjs. Sustain′able , that may be sustained; Sustained′ , kept up at one uniform pitch.— ns. Sustain′er , one who, or that which, sustains; Sustain′ment , act of sustaining, sustenance; Sus′tenance , that which sustains: maintenance: provisions.— adj. Sustentac′ular , supporting, pertaining to a Sustentac′ulum , a support or sustaining ti ue, esp. an inferior spine of the tarsus in spiders of the genus Epeira .— v.t. Sus′tentāte , to sustain.— n. Sustentā′tion , that which sustains: support: maintenance.— adj. Susten′tative , sustaining.— ns. Sus′tentātor , a sustaining part or structure; Susten′tion , the act of sustaining; Susten′tor , one of two posterior projections of a butterfly-chrysalis.— Sustentation Fund , the scheme by which the ministers of the Free Church of Scotland are supported by voluntary contributions not local or congregational, but with a national altruism or solidarity paid into a great central fund, out of which equal stipends are paid to all alike. [L. sustinēre — sub , up, tenēre , to hold.]