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Definition of Exist
1. Verb. Have an existence, be extant. "Is there a God?"
Specialized synonyms: Come, Preexist, Kick About, Kick Around, Knock About, Coexist, Indwell, Hold, Obtain, Prevail, Consist, Dwell, Lie, Lie In, Endanger, Imperil, Jeopardise, Jeopardize, Menace, Peril, Threaten, Flow, Distribute, Dwell, Inhabit
Derivative terms: Being, Existence, Existent, Existent, Existent
2. Verb. Support oneself. "Many people in the world have to subsist on $1 a day"
Specialized synonyms: Breathe, Drift, Freewheel
Related verbs: Endure, Go, Hold Out, Hold Up, Last, Live, Live On, Survive
Derivative terms: Subsistence, Subsister, Survival
Definition of Exist
1. v. i. To be as a fact and not as a mode; to have an actual or real being, whether material or spiritual.
Definition of Exist
1. Verb. to be; have existence; have being or reality ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Exist
1. to be [v -ED, -ING, -S] - See also: be
Medical Definition of Exist
1. 1. To be as a fact and not as a mode; to have an actual or real being, 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) 2. To be manifest in any manner; to continue to be; as, great evils existed in his reign. 3. To live; to have life or the functions of vitality; as, men can not exist water, nor fishes on land. Synonym: See Be. Origin: L. Existere, exsistere, to step out or forth, emerge, appear, exist; ex out + sistere to cause to stand, to set, put, place, stand still, fr. Stare to stand: cf. F. Exister. See Stand. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Exist
Literary usage of Exist
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Confessions of S. Augustine: Book I-X. by Augustine (1886)
"... things exist owe their being to God, AND I looked back on other things; and
I saw that they owed their being to Thee, and were all bounded in Thee: but ..."
2. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1888)
"The extensive petroleum fields which are suspected to exist all along the Mackenzie
may become of importance with the progressive settlement of Saskatchewan ..."
3. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1895)
"... she makes are the outcome of an enlightened comprehension of things as they
exist, and of the causes to which all enlightened minds must trace them. ..."
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