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Definition of Subsist
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.

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Subsist Quotations

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

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

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

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

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


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