Meanings
verbsustentate (third-person singular simple present sustentates, present participle sustentating, simple past and past participle sustentated)
present singular third person sustentates · participle present sustentating · participle past sustentated · past sustentated
- obsoletetransitiveTo sustain.
But he was only the first of a long list of holy and hard-hitting ones who have, by this divine restorative, been sustentated, fortified, corroborated, and consoled.
1861, Charles Reade, The Cloister and the Hearth, Chapter II
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sustentate. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sustentate
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“sustentate.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sustentate. Accessed November 3, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “sustentate,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sustentate.
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