Subsist

Quick meaning: Subsist is a verb meaning To survive on a minimum of resources.

Meaning

To survive on a minimum of resources.

More Meanings

1. To retain a certain state; to continue.
2. (transitive, obsolete) To supply sustenance or subsistence to or for.
3. (chiefly philosophy) To have ontological reality; to exist.

Example Sentences

Subject to section 5(1), copyright subsists only by virtue of this Act.

Remember Man! "the Univerſal Cauſe / Acts not by partial, but by gen’ral Laws ; / And makes what Happineſs we juſtly call / Subſiſt not in the Good of one, but all.

With mutual toil, and intuitive dexterity, we built our commodious habitation in the hollow of a mango tree, that the fruit, which was then in bloſſom, might ſubſiſt our young.

Firm we ſubſiſt, yet poſſible to ſwerve / Since Reaſon not impoſſibly may meet / Some ſpecious object by the Foe ſubornd, / And fall into deception unaware, / Not keeping ſtricteſt watch, as ſhe was warnd.

Word Forms

• subsists
• subsisting
• subsisted

Synonyms for subsist

Depending on context, synonyms include live, exist, survive.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include survive, live, exist, subsistence, linger, persist.

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