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ing, whether material or spiritual. Who now, alas! no more is missed Than if he never did exist. Swift. To conceive the world . . . to have existed from eternity. South.

The state of existing or being; actual possession of being; continuance in being; as, the existence of body and of soul in union; the separate existence of the soul; immortal existence. The main object of our existence. Lubbock.

Existence. [R.] Sir M. Hale.

Having being or existence; existing; being; occurring now; taking place. The eyes and mind are fastened on objects which have no real being, as if they were truly existent. Dryden.

Having existence. [Archaic] Bp. Barlow. --Ex`is*ten"tial*ly, adv. [Archaic] Existentially as well as essentially intelligent. Colerige.

One who exists.

Capable of existence. Grew.

Esteem; opinion; reputation. [Obs.] Steele.

To exist at the same time; -- sometimes followed by with. Of substances no one has any clear idea, farther than of certain simple ideas coexisting together. Locke. So much purity and integrity . . . coexisting with so much decay and so many infirmities. Warburton.

Existence at the same time with another; -- contemporary existence. Without the help, or so much as the coexistence, of any condition. Jer. Taylor.

Existing at the same time with another. -- n.

Coexistent. Locke.

The state of not coexisting. [Obs.] Locke.

To exist within; to dwell within. [Obs.] Substances inexisting within the divine mind. A. Tucker.

Inexistent; not existing. [Obs.] Gudworth.

That which exists within; a constituent. A. Tucker.

Not having being; not existing.

Absence of existence; the negation of being; nonentity. A. Baxter.

Not having existence.

To exist after; to live subsequently. [Obs. or R.]