sustentacle

English

Etymology

From Latin sustentaculum. See sustentation.

Noun

sustentacle (plural sustentacles)

  1. (obsolete) sustenance or substance.
    • 1642, Henry More, Psychathanasia:
      That God's the sustentacle of all Natures

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