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.
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..
Entophyte :: Entophyte (n.) A vegetable parasite subsisting in the interior of the body.
Sportule :: Sportulary (a.) Subsisting on alms or charitable contributions.
Subsistency :: Subsistence (n.) Same as Hypostasis, 2..
Ichthyophagist :: Ichthyophagist (n.) One who eats, or subsists on, fish..
Piscivorous :: Piscivorous (a.) Feeding or subsisting on fish.
Subsist :: Subsist (v. i.) To be; to have existence; to inhere.
Subsist :: Subsisting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Subsis.
Graminivorous :: Graminivorous (a.) Feeding or subsisting on grass, and the like food; -- said of horses, cattle, and other animals..
Empyrean :: Empyrean (n.) The highest heaven, where the pure element of fire was supposed by the ancients to subsist..
Panivorous :: Panivorous (a.) Eating bread; subsisting on bread.
Sustain :: Sustain (v. t.) To maintain; to keep alive; to support; to subsist; to nourish; as, provisions to sustain an army..
Need :: Need (n.) Want of the means of subsistence; poverty; indigence; destitution.
Subsist :: Subsist (v. i.) To continue; to retain a certain state.
Appanage :: Appanage (n.) The portion of land assigned by a sovereign prince for the subsistence of his younger sons.
Alienate :: Alienate (v. t.) To withdraw, as the affections; to make indifferent of averse, where love or friendship before subsisted; to estrange; to wean; -- with from..
Sustenance :: Sustenance (n.) The act of sustaining; support; maintenance; subsistence; as, the sustenance of the body; the sustenance of life..
Indigence :: Indigence (n.) The condition of being indigent; want of estate, or means of comfortable subsistence; penury; poverty; as, helpless, indigence..
Lotophagi :: Lotophagi (n. pl.) A people visited by Ulysses in his wanderings. They subsisted on the lotus. See Lotus (b), and Lotus-eater..
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