SUBSIST

v.

4 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
v.

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

2.
v.

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

3.
v.

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

4.
v.

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. Robertson.

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