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Definition of Subsist
1. 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 Subsist
1. v. i. To be; to have existence; to inhere.
2. v. t. To support with provisions; to feed; to maintain; as, to subsist one's family.
Definition of Subsist
1. Verb. To survive on a minimum of resources. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Subsist
1. to continue to exist [v -ED, -ING, -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Subsist
Literary usage of Subsist
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Law of Nations: Or, Principles of the Law of Nature, Applied to the by Emer de Vattel, Joseph Chitty (1883)
"M«P- the marriage ties, or have ordained that they should continue ri*ge- for
life unless dissolved by the judgment of a court, those ties still subsist, ..."
2. Observations on the Religious Peculiarities of the Society of Friends by Joseph John Gurney (1832)
"... small body of persons, I know of no more salutary introduction, than a survey
of those grounds of union in matters of religion which subsist, first, ..."
3. Report by Oklahoma Adjutant-general's office (1859)
"Some one of those minute timber-beetles which subsist upon the wood of dead trees
had here had jiS abode, multitudes of them proba- bly mining their burrows ..."
4. The Life and Theatrical Times of Charles Kean, F.S.A. by Fanny Kemble, Kate Field, John William Cole (1882)
"good; but I think that who would see them even as they still subsist now had
better lose no time about it. Harley Street, Tuesday, April 12th, 1842. ..."
5. The Encyclopædia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"The large majority of the species subsist chiefly on animal food, though many
are omnivorous, and a few chiefly vegetable- eaters. ..."
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