a. and sb. rare. [ad. L. sustinentem, -ens, pr. pple. of sustinēre to SUSTAIN.]
A. adj. Sustaining. † B. sb. Support.
1603. J. Davies, Microcosmos (1878), 70/1. And our right Arme the Weedowe’s Sustinent.
1876. Dowden, Poems, 13. Gather me close in tender, sustinent arms.
