Definition of subsist

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Subsist (v. i.) To be maintained with food and clothing; to be supported; to live.

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Living :: Living (n.) Means of subsistence; sustenance; estate.
Polyphagous :: Polyphagous (a.) Eating, or subsisting on, many kinds of food; as, polyphagous animals..
Supportable :: Support (n.) That which maintains or preserves from being overcome, falling, yielding, sinking, giving way, or the like; subsistence; maintenance; assistance; reenforcement; as, he gave his family a good support, the support of national credit; the assaulting column had the support of a battery..
Subsistence :: Subsist (v. t.) To support with provisions; to feed; to maintain; as, to subsist one's family..
Polyphagy :: Polyphagy (n.) The practice or faculty of subsisting on many kinds of food.
Live :: Live (v. i.) To feed; to subsist; to be nourished or supported; -- with on; as, horses live on grass and grain..
Indigence :: Indigence (n.) The condition of being indigent; want of estate, or means of comfortable subsistence; penury; poverty; as, helpless, indigence..
Indigent :: Indigent (a.) Destitute of property or means of comfortable subsistence; needy; poor; in want; necessitous.
Sustain :: Sustain (v. t.) To maintain; to keep alive; to support; to subsist; to nourish; as, provisions to sustain an army..
Convoy :: Convoy (n.) A vessel or fleet, or a train or trains of wagons, employed in the transportation of munitions of war, money, subsistence, clothing, etc., and having an armed escort..
Subsistent :: Subsistent (a.) Having real being; as, a subsistent spirit..
Poverty :: Poverty (n.) The quality or state of being poor or indigent; want or scarcity of means of subsistence; indigence; need.
Agreement :: Agreement (n.) State of agreeing; harmony of opinion, statement, action, or character; concurrence; concord; conformity; as, a good agreement subsists among the members of the council..
Appanage :: Appanage (n.) The portion of land assigned by a sovereign prince for the subsistence of his younger sons.
Inexistence :: Inexistence (n.) Inherence; subsistence.
Subsist :: Subsisting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Subsis.
Piscivorous :: Piscivorous (a.) Feeding or subsisting on fish.
Ration :: Ration (n.) A fixed daily allowance of provisions assigned to a soldier in the army, or a sailor in the navy, for his subsistence..
Intercontinental :: Intercontinental (a.) Between or among continents; subsisting or carried on between continents; as, intercontinental relations or commerce..
Ichthyophagous :: Ichthyophagous (a.) Eating, or subsisting on, fish..
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