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

Real being; existence. Not only the things had subsistence, but the very images were of some creatures existing. Stillingfleet.

A staff department of the United States army charged, under the supervision of the Chief of Staff, with the purchasing and issuing to the army of such supplies as make up the ration. It also supplies, for authorized sales, certain articles of food and other minor stores. It is commanded by any officer of the rank of b…

Subsistence. [R.]

Having real being; as, a subsistent spirit.

, statement, action, or character; concurrence; concord; conformity; as, a good agreement subsists among the members of the council. What agreement hath the temple of God with idols 2 Cor. vi. 16. Expansion and duration have this further agreement. Locke.

thdraw, as the affections; to make indifferent of averse, where love or friendship before subsisted; to estrange; to wean; -- with from. The errors which . . . alienated a loyal gentry and priesthood from the House of Stuart. Macaulay. The recollection of his former life is a dream that only the more alienates him from…

The portion of land assigned by a sovereign prince for the subsistence of his younger sons.

ineers, medical corps, etc., besides the staff organizations such as those of the pay and subsistence departments.

Eating, or subsisting on, berries; as, baccivorous birds.

he rest, in imitation, to like arms Betook them. Milton. Whither shall I betake me, where subsist Milton.

rtable hope. "Kind words and comfortable." Cowper. A comfortable provision made for their subsistence. Dryden.

provide food for a body of troops or a military post; -- officially called commissary of subsistence. [U. S.] Washington wrote to the President of Congress . . . urging the appointment of a commissary general, a quartermaster general, a commissary of musters, and a commissary of artillery. W. Irving Commissary general…

The state of accompanying; accompaniment. The secondary action subsisteth not alone, but in concomitancy with the other. Sir T. Browne.

as a body composed of parts in union or connection; to hold together; to be; to exist; to subsist; to be supported and maintained. He is before all things, and by him all things consist. Col. i. 17.

r a train or trains of wagons, employed in the transportation of munitions of war, money, subsistence, clothing, etc., and having an armed escort.

Divided; dividual. [R.] He so often substantiates distinctions into dividuous, selfsubsistent. Coleridge.

One who subsists on charity; a dependent. South.

To proceed from, as a source or fountain; to take origin; to arise, to originate. That subsisting from of government from which all special laws emanate. De Quincey.

The highest heaven, where the pure element of fire was supposed by the ancients to subsist. The empyrean rung With hallelujahs. Milton.