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verb

Subsist v. t. To support with provisions; to feed; to maintain; as, to subsist one's family. "He laid waste the adjacent country in order to render it more difficult for the enemy to subsist their army."

Subsist v. i. (past & past part. subsisted; pres. part. subsisting)

To be; to have existence; to inhere. "And makes what happiness we justly call, Subsist not in the good of one, but all."

To continue; to retain a certain state. "Firm we subsist, yet possible to swerve."

To be maintained with food and clothing; to be supported; to live. "To subsist on other men's charity."

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Etymology of 'Subsist'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Subsist" Quotes from Famous Books

... enough for me; Three courses are as good as ten;— If Nature can subsist on three, Thank heaven for three. Amen! I always thought cold victual nice;— ...

— The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (The Physician and Poet not the Jurist)

... unity of purpose. To assume that the evidence of the beginning, or end, of so vast a scheme lies within the reach of our philosophical inquiries, or even of our speculations, appears to be inconsistent with a just estimate of the relations which subsist between the finite powers of man and the attributes of an infinite and ...

— Discourses - Biological and Geological Essays • Thomas H. Huxley

... self-existent and independent; the most rightful monarchs and established monarchies in the world cannot possibly be supported but by the conjunction of arms and laws,—a union so necessary that the one cannot subsist without the other. Laws without the protection of arms sink into contempt, and arms which are not tempered by laws quickly turn a State into anarchy. The Roman commonwealth being set aside by Julius Caesar, the supreme ...

— The Memoirs of Cardinal de Retz, Complete • Jean Francois Paul de Gondi, Cardinal de Retz

... itself, which is not to be expected, we may look for a civil war every election. If it continue itself, we shall suffer all the tyranny of a faction subdivided into new factions. And, as such a violent government cannot long subsist, we shall at last, after many convulsions and civil wars, find repose in absolute monarchy, which it would have been happier for us to have established peaceably from the beginning. Absolute monarchy, therefore, is the easiest death, the true Euthanasia ...

— Hume - (English Men of Letters Series) • T.H. Huxley

... any mistrust that may subsist on the part of the British Government with regard to our intentions by repeating most positively formal assurance that, even in the case of armed conflict with Belgium, Germany will, under no pretense whatever, annex Belgian territory. Sincerity of this declaration is ...

— New York Times Current History: The European War from the Beginning to March 1915, Vol 1, No. 2 - Who Began the War, and Why? • Various

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