About Report a problem

Menu

sustentamen

sustentamen [CL sustentare+-men] 1 support. b (provision of) means of subsistence, maintenance, sustenance. non surrexi de thoro ‥ sine ~ine bacilli et famulorum Lantfr. Swith. 35; quoniam paraliticus exto / ‥ / surrexi numquam sine sustentamine Wulf. Swith. II 935; in trabe ‥ cujus ~ine tota paries fulciebatur R. Cold. Godr. 55; mirantur ‥ quemadmodum sine alicujus adminiculo ~inis eo loci ‥ pervenisset Ad. Eyns. Visio 3.  b c964 ad ~en aecclesiae quam mihi ‥ regendam commisit CS 1136; absque omnis cibi ~ine R. Cold. Godr. 59. 2 that which provides support. b (med.) crutch. funes anchorarum ex omni parte strictius navis ~ina retinebant R. Cold. Cuthb. 30; s1398 murum ‥ appendicii ‥ ad presens ~en statuit renovari Meaux III 242.  b contractus ‥ ad sepulcrum S. Edmundi ‥ venit, ~ina deposuit ‥ et erectus ‥ ad propria rediit (Edm.) NLA II 665.

Saved

Recent