Definition of Subsists

1. Verb. (third-person singular of subsist) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Subsists

1. subsist [v] - See also: subsist

Lexicographical Neighbors of Subsists

subsigns
subsilicate
subsilicates
subsinuate
subsist
subsisted
subsistence
subsistence farming
subsistences
subsistencies
subsistency
subsistent
subsister
subsisters
subsisting
subsists (current term)
subsite
subsites
subsizar
subsizars
subskill
subskills
subslice
subslices
subsocial
subsocieties
subsociety
subsoil
subsoiled
subsoiler

Literary usage of Subsists

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1833)
"Observations on the Analogy which subsists between the Calculus of ... to point out the striking resemblance which subsists between several parts of common ..."

2. The Works of George Bull: D. D., Lord Bishop of St. David's by George Bull, Edward Burton, Robert Nelson (1827)
"... THE SOUL OF MAN subsists AFTER DEATH, IN A PLACE OF ABODE PROVIDED BY GOD FOR IT, TILL THE RESURRECTION. ACTS i. 25. That he might go to his own place. ..."

3. An Institute of the Law of Scotland: In Four Books : in the Order of Sir by John Erskine, George Mackenzie, James Ivory (1828)
"... or shall make it over to the debtor's heir upon a singular title, the debt is not extinguished confusione, but still subsists in favour of the heir ..."

4. The Nation: The Foundations of Civil Order and Political Life in the United by Elisha Mulford (1875)
"... is to make freedom real, and its development is only as it does make freedom real. The freedom of the people subsists in the nation as a moral person. ..."

5. The Poetical Works of John Dryden by John Dryden (1909)
"When the same household mortal foes did yield, And brothers stain'd with brothers' blood Right lives by law, and law subsists by Disarm the shepherd, ..."

6. A Practical and Elementary Abridgment of the Cases Argued and Determined in by Elisha Hammond, Charles Petersdorff (1831)
"... by tho statute of frauds, as subsists in to the duration of the lease, ... on which the tenancy other re subsists in other respects, as to the rent, ..."

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