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单词 manutenency
释义 manutenency Obs.
[ad. med.L. manūtenentia (= F. maintenance), f. manūtenent-em, pr. pple. of manū tenēre: see maintain v. Cf. OF. manutenence.]
The action of holding in the hand or upholding; support, maintenance.
1633T. Adams Exp. 2 Peter iii. 17. 1484 Nothing can keepe a man from wandring but the manutenency of God.1659J. Arrowsmith Chain Princ. 453 As when a man holds a staff in his hand, let him but take away his manutenencie, the staff falls immediately to the ground.1699J. Barry Reviving Cordial Ded. (1802) 13, [I] who am to this very day kept alive and upheld by that divine manutenency.
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