单词 | to find sustenance |
释义 | > as lemmasto find (also win, etc.) (one's) sustenance b. Those things which are essential to sustain life; the necessities of life; the means of subsistence or survival; (also) a living, a livelihood. In early use frequently in †to find (also win, etc.) (one's) sustenance. ΘΚΠ the world > life > source or principle of life > [noun] > as dependent on sustenance > means of life bylivec1000 sustenancec1300 sustaining1395 sap1526 livinga1538 maintenance1540 life-breath1597 support1599 subsistence1606 through-bearing1705 c1300 Life & Martyrdom Thomas Becket (Harl. 2277) (1845) 1526 (MED) This seli men aboute him nome for love of Seint Thomas, And fonde hem sustenance [c1300 Laud liflode] ynouȝ. c1330 (?c1300) Bevis of Hampton (Auch.) l. 3916 Iosian eueriche a day Ȝede aboute þe cite wiþ inne, Here sostenaunse for to winne. a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) v. l. 122 It is to kinde no plesance That man above his sustienance Unto the gold schal serve and bowe. a1400 (c1303) R. Mannyng Handlyng Synne (Harl.) l. 1326 Ȝyf þou þurgh wykked ordynaunce Fordost pore mannys sustynaunce Þat aftyrward he may nat lyue. ?a1425 Mandeville's Trav. (Egerton) (1889) 24 In þis deserte I dwell and gase to gete my sustinaunce. a1450 (?a1300) Richard Coer de Lyon (Caius) (1810) l. 3757 Kyng Richard gaff castels and touns, To hys eerlys and to barouns, To have therinne her sustynaunce. a1475 J. Fortescue Governance of Eng. (Laud) (1885) 154 Þe clarkes off is chapell..[shall] be rewarded with pencions..ffor þer rewardes or sustenance. 1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 350 To haue sufficient for their necessarie sustenance. 1641 Termes de la Ley 65 He which had the government of any such Mannor or house, was called the Commander, which had nothing to doe to dispose of it, but to the use of the Priorie, and to have onely his sustenance of it according to his degree. 1687 A. Lovell tr. J. de Thévenot Trav. into Levant i. 243 There is..all that is necessary for the Service of the Church, and the sorry sustenance of the Religious. 1710 H. Prideaux Orig. & Right Tithes i. 30 They reap from them a sustenance in Earthly things. 1798 S. T. Coleridge Coll. Lett. (1956) I. 376 A scholastic education..presented insuperable objections, both of mind and body, to my obtaining sustenance for myself and a family by my labour either in the manufactory or the field. 1836 W. Irving Astoria I. 2 It was the fur trade..which gave early sustenance and vitality to the great Canadian provinces. 1864 Ld. Tennyson Enoch Arden in Enoch Arden, etc. 15 She..Gain'd for her own a scanty sustenance. 1916 C. J. Dennis Songs Sentimental Bloke (new ed.) 120 Crust, sustenance; a livelihood. 1990 R. Santhanam Fisheries Sci. Contents Prawn picking—a sustenance for rural women folk. < as lemmas |
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