Sustenance
sustenance (?), n. (OF.sustenance, sostenance, soustenance: cf. L.
sustenentia endurance. See Sustain.) 1.
The act of sustaining; support; maintenance; subsistence; as, the
sustenance of the body; the sustenance of
life.
2. That which supports life; food; victuals;
provisions; means of living; as, the city has ample
sustenance. A man of little sustenance.
Chaucer.
For lying is thy sustenance, thy
food. Milton.
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