Definition of Subsist

	Add the "Quote of the Day" to Your Site or Blog Now!
Home - Quote Topics - Quotes of the Day - Quote Keywords - Author Types - Quotation Trivia Authors: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Subsist

To be; to have existence; to inhere.

To continue; to retain a certain state.

To be maintained with food and clothing; to be supported; to live.

To support with provisions; to feed; to maintain; as, to subsist one's family.

Related Definitions:

And, As, Be, Certain, Clothing, Continue, Existence, Family, Feed, Food, Have, Inhere, Live, Maintain, Maintained, One, Retain, State, Subsist, Support, Supported, To, With

Subsist Quotations

Between understanding and faith immediate connections must subsist.
Marquis de Sade

A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.
Daniel Webster

As states subsist in part by keeping their weaknesses from being known, so is it the quiet of families to have their chancery and their parliament within doors, and to compose and determine all emergent differences there.
John Donne

The bow cannot always stand bent, nor can human frailty subsist without some lawful recreation.
Miguel De Cervantes

Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.
Samuel Johnson

Thus the creation, which seems an arbitrary act, supposes laws as invariable as those of the fatality of the Atheists. It would be absurd to say that the Creator might govern the world without those rules, since without them it could not subsist.
Charles de Secondat

But a multitude of people, even the two hundred million of the Chinese empire, cannot subsist without civil government.
Ezra Stiles

The buffalo is all gone, and an Indian can't catch enough jack rabbits to subsist himself and his family, and then, there aren't enough jack rabbits to catch. What are they to do?
George Crook

Liberty is the proper end and object of authority, and cannot subsist without it; and it is liberty to that which is good, just, and honest.
John Winthrop

Nor in truth, can Forreign Trade subsist without the Home Trade, both being connected together.
Dudley North

Subsist Translations

subsist in French is subsister, subsistent, subsistons, subsistez
subsist in German is fortdauern
subsist in Italian is esistere
subsist in Spanish is persistir

Quotes