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Definition of Sustentative
1. a. Adapted to sustain, strengthen, or corroborate; as, sustentative citations or quotations.
Definition of Sustentative
1. Adjective. Adapted to sustain, strengthen, or corroborate. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Sustentative
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sustentative
Literary usage of Sustentative
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Wish and Will: An Introduction to the Psychology of Desire and Volition by George Lyon Turner (1880)
"Its third function is that of sustaining power—the sustentative Function of the
Will. (a) It is a fact, the truth of which may be tested, or rather verified ..."
2. Text-book of the Embryology of Man and Mammals by Oscar Hertwig, Edward Laurens Mark (1892)
"According to His, KOLLIKER, and W. MULLER, on the contrary, the wall of the optic
vesicle furnishes the sustentative tissue only, whereas the nerve-fibras ..."
3. Text-book of the Embryology of Man and Mammals by Oscar Hertwig, Edward Laurens Mark (1892)
"When the ingrowth has taken place, the sustentative cells are, as KOLLIKER
describes them, arranged radially and so united with one another that they ..."
4. Text-book of the Embryology of Man and Mammals by Oscar Hertwig, Edward Laurens Mark (1901)
"According to His, KOLLIKER, and W. MULLER, on the contrary, the wall of the optic
vesicle furnishes the sustentative tissue only, whereas the nerve-fibres ..."
5. Text-book of the Embryology of Invertebrates by Eugen Korschelt, Karl Heider, Edward Laurens Mark, William McMichael Woodworth, Matilda Bernard, Martin Fountain Woodward (1895)
"This division is effected by the formation between the oesophagus and the body-wall
of two partitions of the sustentative lamella, which constitute the ..."
6. Text-book of the embryology of man and mammals by Oscar Hertwig, Edward Laurens Mark (1901)
"When the ingrowth hns taken place, the sustentative cells are, as KOLLIKER
describes them, arranged radially and so united with one another that they ..."
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