sustentation fund

noun

1. a fund, esp in the Church of Scotland, to augment the support of ministers

Example Sentences

The revenue of the church increased; the grant from the sustentation fund was in 1901 only 75, but from 1903 onwards it was 167.

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Their contributions for ecclesiastical purposes make no great figure, therefore, in the lists of the Sustentation Fund.

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There was no proper sustentation fund; and the result was that nearly all the ministers had to add to their incomes in other ways.

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