Definitions

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb Present participle of subsist.

Etymologies

Sorry, no etymologies found.

Support

Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word subsisting.

Examples

  • For there was a syllo - gism, the terms subsisting, as well in this, as ia. that way.

    Works Aristotle, Thomas Taylor 1812

  • I recall subsisting on Doritos between the years 1985 - 1997.

    Totality Of Polls Suggest that Indiana And North Carolina Could Be A Wash 2009

  • The Indians are described as subsisting by farming, fishing, hunting, lumbering, and labouring, with good dwellings and stock well cared for; very industrious and of good morals, excepting a few intemperates.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913

  • Furthermore, he doth speak, command, forbid, promise, and threaten by an eternal, ancient word subsisting in his essence.

    The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 04 Rossiter Johnson 1885

  • In a letter written in 1745 to his friend George Montagu, Horace Walpole gives an amusing description of the patron of Roubiliac, and, incidentally, reveals the not very brotherly terms subsisting between himself and the knight: 'You propose making a visit to Englefield Green'

    Art in England Notes and Studies Dutton Cook 1856

  • At the same time he had the unpleasant duty to point out, that the evidence of the Spanish lady was so far prejudicial, that it pointed out the good terms subsisting between the young man and the pirate-captain.

    The Pirate Frederick Marryat 1820

  • To the success of both, and indeed even to my 'subsisting' in either, health and the possession of my faculties are necessary Requisites.

    Biographia Epistolaris, Volume 1. Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1803

  • Smallaxe, it is not at all clear to me why all jobs should entail "subsisting" in the robust sense of subsisting you give.

    Faith-Promoting Rumor Chris H. 2008

  • It's not the government's job to take care of you without you doing something yourself. smallaxe, it is not at all clear to me why all jobs should entail "subsisting" in the robust sense of subsisting you give.

    Faith-Promoting Rumor Chris H. 2008

  • IV, v-vi) and Murray facetiously referred to the situation when he spoke of "a Dryness" subsisting "between some certain gentlemen and me until the unhappy differences of the province are reconciled" (Letters of James Murray, Loyalist, p. 42).

    Journal of a Lady of Quality; Being the Narrative of a Journey from Scotland to the West Indies, North Carolina, and Portugal, in the Years 1774 to 1776 1920

Comments

Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.