Definition of subsist

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Subsist (v. i.) To be maintained with food and clothing; to be supported; to live.

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Convoy :: Convoy (n.) A vessel or fleet, or a train or trains of wagons, employed in the transportation of munitions of war, money, subsistence, clothing, etc., and having an armed escort..
Profession :: Profession (v.) That of which one professed knowledge; the occupation, if not mechanical, agricultural, or the like, to which one devotes one's self; the business which one professes to understand, and to follow for subsistence; calling; vocation; employment; as, the profession of arms; the profession of a clergyman, lawyer, or physician; the profession of lecturer on chemistry..
Plant-eating :: Plant-eating (a.) Eating, or subsisting on, plants; as, a plant-eating beetle..
Agreement :: Agreement (n.) State of agreeing; harmony of opinion, statement, action, or character; concurrence; concord; conformity; as, a good agreement subsists among the members of the council..
Indigence :: Indigence (n.) The condition of being indigent; want of estate, or means of comfortable subsistence; penury; poverty; as, helpless, indigence..
Minstrel :: Minstrel (n.) In the Middle Ages, one of an order of men who subsisted by the arts of poetry and music, and sang verses to the accompaniment of a harp or other instrument; in modern times, a poet; a bard; a singer and harper; a musician..
Subsistence :: Subsistence (n.) Real being; existence.
Subsizar :: Subsistent (a.) Inherent; as, qualities subsistent in matter..
Sanguinivorous :: Sanguinivorous (a.) Subsisting on blood.
Panivorous :: Panivorous (a.) Eating bread; subsisting on bread.
Ichthyophagous :: Ichthyophagous (a.) Eating, or subsisting on, fish..
Living :: Living (n.) Means of subsistence; sustenance; estate.
Inexistence :: Inexistence (n.) Inherence; subsistence.
Sportule :: Sportulary (a.) Subsisting on alms or charitable contributions.
Piscivorous :: Piscivorous (a.) Feeding or subsisting on fish.
Polyphagous :: Polyphagous (a.) Eating, or subsisting on, many kinds of food; as, polyphagous animals..
Subsistent :: Subsistent (a.) Having real being; as, a subsistent spirit..
Rypophagous :: Rypophagous (a.) Eating, or subsisting on, filth..
Graminivorous :: Graminivorous (a.) Feeding or subsisting on grass, and the like food; -- said of horses, cattle, and other animals..
Poverty :: Poverty (n.) The quality or state of being poor or indigent; want or scarcity of means of subsistence; indigence; need.
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