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sustenter (v.)
1.(vieux)alimenter, nourrir.
sustenter (v.)
sustenter (v.)
alimenter, nourrir, réconforter, remonter, restaurer, revigorer, soutenir, substanter, subventionner
sustenter (v.) (vieux)
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SUSTENTER (v. a.)
1. En parlant des personnes, entretenir la vie par le moyen des aliments. Sustenter les pauvres.
• Il aura ce qu'il faut pour sustenter son corps (LA FONT. Fér.)
Par extension.
• Quand la pénurie des espèces vous tourmente, quand les métiers, les arts, les manufactures, le commerce demandent à grands cris d'être sustentés (MIRABEAU Collection, t. IV, p. 59)
2. Se sustenter, v. réfl. Se nourrir. Il faut se sustenter.
HISTORIQUE
XIVe s.— Sache que j'ay toute puissance De substanter [donner substance] toutes essences (Nat. à l'alch. errant, 402)
XVIe s.— Ainsi que le pain nourrist, sustente, et conserve la vie de nostre corps.... (CALV. Instit. 1195)— Une femme de village accusoit.... un soldat pour avoir arraché à ses petits enfants ce peu de bouillie qui luy restoit à les substanter (MONT. II, 48)
ÉTYMOLOGIE
Provenç. et espagn. sustentar ; ital. sostentare ; du lat. sustentare, fréquentatif de sustinere, de susum, en haut, et tenere, tenir. Sustentare signifie au propre tenir par-dessus, supporter, et, au figuré, soutenir les forces.
SUPPLÉMENT AU DICTIONNAIRE
SUSTENTER. Ajoutez :
3. Sustenter s'est dit aussi dans le sens de soutenir.
• L'idée de la décomposition de l'aile en parties active et passive semble avoir servi de point de départ à la plupart des recherches ; en effet on s'occupe généralement de savoir quel sera le pouvoir sustentant de l'air sous un plan plus ou moins oblique et transporté horizontalement (TATIN Acad. des sc. Comptes rend. t. LXXXIII, p. 457)
Sustenter est ici le verbe de sustentation, action de soutenir.
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