supportation

English

Noun

supportation (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) maintenance; support
   • c. 1503–1512, John Skelton, Ware the Hauke; republished in John Scattergood, editor, John Skelton: The Complete English Poems, 1983, →OCLC, page 62, lines 29–32:

     I shall you make relacyon
     By way of apostrofacyon
     Under supportacyon
     Of your pacyent tolleracyon, […]

   • c. 1598, Francis Bacon, An Account of […] Compositions for Alienations:

     the supportation of the king's expence

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “supportation”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)