sustentative 的定义
- maintenance in being or activity; the sustaining of life through vital processes.
- provision with means or funds for upkeep.
- means of sustaining life; sustenance.
sustentative 近义词
等同于 alimentary
更多sustentative例句
- Interest as connected with the sustentation of a certain mode of social life.
- For this civilisation makes no provision excepting temporary sustentation in hospitals, workhouses or prisons.
- And so all things appertaining to the sustentation of man, in triple and more exceeded their accustomed prices.
- There are two funds: one subscribed expressly for the building of churches, the other limited to the "sustentation" of incumbents.
- The prolonged, delicate, exquisite sustentation of the pictorial tone seems to me a marvel of ingenuity and fancy.