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Not having being; not existing.

Standing or resting on something; as, an insistent wall. Sir H. Wotton.

In an insistent manner.

Not having existence.

Manifestation; token; portent. Dryden. We asked of God that some ostent might clear Our cloudy business, who gave us sign. Chapman.

To make an ambitious display of; to show or exhibit boastingly. [R.] Jer. Taylor.

The act of ostentating or of making an ambitious display; unnecessary show; pretentious parade; -- usually in a detractive sense. "Much ostentation vain of fleshly arm." Milton. He knew that good and bountiful minds were sometimes inclined to ostentation. Atterbury.

Fond of, or evincing, ostentation; unduly conspicuous; pretentious; boastful. Far from being ostentatious of the good you do. Dryden. The ostentatious professions of many years. Macaulay. -- Os`ten*ta"tious*ly, adv. -- Os`ten*ta"tious*ness, n.

One fond of display; a boaster. Sherwood.

Ostentatious. [Obs.]

Ostentatious. [Obs.] Feltham.

eriod when parts of the same kind sometimes fall off or are absorbed; permanent; as, persistent teeth or gills; a persistent calyx; -- opposed to deciduous, and caducous.

In a persistent manner.

A second or subsequent, at the customhouse, of goods which had been omitted by mistake.

Existing or living after. [R.] "Postexistent atoms." Cudworth.

Existing previously; preceding existence; as, a preëxistent state. Pope.

The theory of a preëxistence of souls before their association with human bodies. Emerson.

Consistent with one's self or with itself; not deviation from the ordinary standard by which the conduct is guided; logically consistent throughout; having each part consistent with the rest.

of or by himself,independent of any other being or cause; -- as, God is the only self-existent being.

Having real being; as, a subsistent spirit.