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sustentative - definition and meaning
Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
adjective adjective (Physiol.) those functions of the body which affect its material composition and thus determine its mass.
from Wiktionary , Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
adjective sustain , strengthen , or corroborate .
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There ` s no reason for somebody who has something sustentative to talk about to go talk to Hannity or go talk to Bill O ` Reilly or FOX and friends or really any of they ` re a very obvious propaganda --
CNN Transcript Oct 19, 2009 2009
There is no sustentative polling data at the time of this writing that suggests otherwise.
Running Mates: Obama's Best Vice Presidential Picks 2008
Am I the only one who finds the bloggers writing more sustentative “articles” than the NYT journalists over the last 2 or 3 days?
The Early Word: The Week Ahead - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
When the non-sustentative forms of lethal selection are considered, it is seen very clearly that man is not exempt from the workings of this law.
Applied Eugenics Paul Popenoe 1933
They are the victims of lethal natural selection, nearly always of the non-sustentative type.
Applied Eugenics Paul Popenoe 1933
The sustentative factor has acquired particular prominence in the human species, since Malthus wrote his essay on population -- that essay which both Darwin and Wallace confess was the starting point of their discovery of natural selection.
Applied Eugenics Paul Popenoe 1933
Non-sustentative lethal selection in man is operating chiefly through zymotic diseases and the bad hygiene of the mentally inferior.
Applied Eugenics Paul Popenoe 1933
These causes may be conveniently divided as in the above diagram, into sustentative and non-sustentative.
Applied Eugenics Paul Popenoe 1933
For this reason alone the non-sustentative form of selection might be expected to be the predominant kind.
Applied Eugenics Paul Popenoe 1933
But it must not be supposed that lethal, non-sustentative selection works only through forms of infant mortality.
Applied Eugenics Paul Popenoe 1933
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