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

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

Want of being or existence.

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

Subsequent existence.

Existence in a former state, or previous to something else. Wisdom declares her antiquity and preëxistence to all the works of this earth. T. Burnet.

Inherent existence; existence possessed by virtue of a being's own nature, and independent of any other being or cause; -- an attribute peculiar to God. Blackmore.

, the act is called abstraction. So, also, when it considers whiteness, softness, virtue, existence, as separate from any particular objects.

To sour; to imbitter. His thin existence all acidified into rage. Carlyle.

wning or recognized in a particular character or relationship; recognition as regards the existence, authority, truth, or genuineness. Immediately upon the acknowledgment of the Christian faith, the eunuch was baptized by Philip. Hooker.

A denial of the existence of the universe as distinct from God.

One who denies the existence of the universe, or of a universe as distinct from God. G. H. Lewes.

A state of reality or real existence as opposed to a possibility or possible existence. [Obs.] The seeds of plants are not at first in act, but in possibility, what they afterward grow to be. Hooker.

Applied to all verbs that express action as distinct from mere existence or state. Active capital, Active wealth, money, or property that may readily be converted into money.

ledge, save of phenomena; one who supports agnosticism, neither affirming nor denying the existence of a personal Deity, a future life, etc.

The doctrine that the existence of a personal Deity, an unseen world, etc., can be neither proved nor disproved, because of the necessary limits of the human mind (as sometimes charged upon Hamilton and Mansel), or because of the insufficiency of the evidence furnished by physical and physical data, to warrant a positi…

. There is something else than the mere alternative of absolute destruction or unreformed existence. Burke.

The quality of being ancient; antiquity; existence from old times.

Existence or state of angels.