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life-supporting, a.
Brit. |ˈlʌɪf səˌpɔːtɪŋ|, U.S. |ˈlaɪf səˌpɔrdɪŋ|
[‹ life n. + supporting adj.]
That can or does support or sustain life; necessary for life. In later use also: of or relating to life support (life support n. 2).
1610R. Davies Chesters Triumph sig. C3, Your life-supporting staffe, The staffe of bread; I'le throw abroad like chaffe. 1744H. Brooke Female Seducers in E. Moore Fables Females Sex xv. 146 The life-supporting grain. 1814Wordsworth Excursion v, One rude House, And its small lot of life-supporting fields. 1835W. Kirby On Power of God in Creation of Animals II. xviii. 268 The means..for rejecting from the body the residuum after the secernment..of the finer life-supporting products. 1889Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 16 308 The temperature limit to life-supporting waters appears to vary in different localities. 1929H. W. Shimer Evol. & Man ii. 14 The only improvement upon the ocean, as a life-supporting medium, is the circulating fluid of the warm-blooded animal. 1985B. Sterling Schismatrix (1986) 268 The routines of his body were subsumed within the life-supporting rhythms of his suit. 2001Nat. Home July–Aug. 38 Permaculture uses the inherent qualities of plants and animals combined with the natural characteristics of landscapes and structures to produce a life-supporting system for city and country. |