Bible Dictionaries
Sostenuto

Webster's Dictionary

(a.) Sustained; - applied to a movement or passage the sounds of which are to sustained to the utmost of the nominal value of the time; also, to a passage the tones of which are to be somewhat prolonged or protacted.

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Sostenuto'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​s/sostenuto.html. 1828.