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sustainer|səˈsteɪnə(r)|
Forms: 4 sosteynere, 5 suste(y)nour, -tener, 6– sustainer.
[Partly a. AF. *sustenour, OF. sosteneor, sousteneur, f. sostenir to sustain; partly directly f. sustain + -er1.]
One who or that which sustains.
1. One who or that which upholds, supports, or keeps in being; an upholder, supporter.
a1400in Eng. Gilds (1870) 349 Principal sosteynere of þe fraunchyse. c1412Hoccleve De Reg. Princ. 2856 Honour, long lyfe,..Mot haue oure sustenour, our prince & kyng! 1429Rolls of Parlt. IV. 360/1 Ye seid Inhabitauntz ben susteners and supportours. 1547–64Bauldwin Mor. Philos. (Palfr.) 126 The sustainers of wrong. a1680Charnock Attrib. God (1682) 709 God is the Lord of all, as he is the sustainer of all by his power. 1726Butler Serm. Rolls xiv. 288 When they shall have a Sensation, that He is the Sustainer of their Being, that they exist in him. 1845Encycl. Metrop. II. 861/1 Almighty Creator and Sustainer of all things. 1909Q. Rev. Apr. 657 The aim of our politics can be no other than that the Bohemian people should again become the sustainers of the idea of the State.
†b. pl. Military supports. Obs. rare.
1708Lond. Gaz. No. 4468/2 [They] had for the Attack on the Right 800 Grenadiers,..and for the Left 1600 Grenadiers, with the like number of Sustainers.
c. A thing or circumstance that sustains a condition.
1818Shelley Rosal. & Helen 337 The very hope of death's dear rest; Which, since the heart within my breast Of natural life was dispossessed, Its strange sustainer there had been. 1831Lytton Godolphin ix, It is not always a sustainer of the stage delusion to be enamoured of an actress.
2.
†a. One who supports or holds a thing. rare.
c1616Chapman Homer's Hymn to Vesta & Merc. 17 Of Heauens golden Rodd The sole Sustainer.
b. A supporting structure or device.
1893Westm. Gaz. 25 Apr. 7/3 The weight of the carriage was 60lb., of the engine 200lb., and of the grating of sustainers 70lb. 1909Cent. Dict., Suppl., Sustainer.., a little disk,..which serves to support in an upright position the wick of a night-light.
†3. A sufferer. Obs. rare.
c1611Chapman Iliad xxiii. 524 Thy selfe, hast a sustainer bene Of much affliction in my cause.
4. One who provides another with the necessaries of life. rare.
1678Sir G. Mackenzie Crim. Laws Scot. i. xix. §16. (1699) 106 By sustainers, are meant such as entertain the Thief at bed and board. 1866J. G. Murphy Comm. Exod. xxii. 22 The decease of the father leaves both the widow and the child without their natural protector and sustainer. |