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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Subsist :: Subsist (v. i.) To be maintained with food and clothing; to be supported; to live.
Sanguinivorous :: Sanguinivorous (a.) Subsisting on blood.
Need :: Need (n.) Want of the means of subsistence; poverty; indigence; destitution.
Sustain :: Sustain (v. t.) To maintain; to keep alive; to support; to subsist; to nourish; as, provisions to sustain an army..
Inexistence :: Inexistence (n.) Inherence; subsistence.
Consist :: Consist (v. i.) To stand firm; to be in a fixed or permanent state, as a body composed of parts in union or connection; to hold together; to be; to exist; to subsist; to be supported and maintained..
Baccivorous :: Baccivorous (a.) Eating, or subsisting on, berries; as, baccivorous birds..
Sustenance :: Sustenance (n.) The act of sustaining; support; maintenance; subsistence; as, the sustenance of the body; the sustenance of life..
Living :: Living (n.) Means of subsistence; sustenance; estate.
Lotophagi :: Lotophagi (n. pl.) A people visited by Ulysses in his wanderings. They subsisted on the lotus. See Lotus (b), and Lotus-eater..
Livelihood :: Livelihood (n.) Subsistence or living, as dependent on some means of support; support of life; maintenance..
Subsistent :: Subsistency (n.) Subsistence.
Entophyte :: Entophyte (n.) A vegetable parasite subsisting in the interior of the body.
Live :: Live (v. i.) To feed; to subsist; to be nourished or supported; -- with on; as, horses live on grass and grain..
Poverty :: Poverty (n.) The quality or state of being poor or indigent; want or scarcity of means of subsistence; indigence; need.
Subsist :: Subsist (v. i.) To continue; to retain a certain state.
Subsist :: Subsisting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Subsis.
Minstrel :: Minstrel (n.) In the Middle Ages, one of an order of men who subsisted by the arts of poetry and music, and sang verses to the accompaniment of a harp or other instrument; in modern times, a poet; a bard; a singer and harper; a musician..
Profession :: Profession (v.) That of which one professed knowledge; the occupation, if not mechanical, agricultural, or the like, to which one devotes one's self; the business which one professes to understand, and to follow for subsistence; calling; vocation; employment; as, the profession of arms; the profession of a clergyman, lawyer, or physician; the profession of lecturer on chemistry..
Trade :: Trade (v.) The business which a person has learned, and which he engages in, for procuring subsistence, or for profit; occupation; especially, mechanical employment as distinguished from the liberal arts, the learned professions, and agriculture; as, we speak of the trade of a smith, of a carpenter, or mason, but not now of the trade of a farmer, or a lawyer, or a physician..
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