sustentative

English

Adjective

sustentative (comparative more sustentative, superlative most sustentative)

1. Adapted to sustain, strengthen, or corroborate.

   sustentative citations or quotations

2. (biology) Relating to those functions of the body which affect its material composition and thus determine its mass.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “sustentative”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)