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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Ichthyophagous :: Ichthyophagous (a.) Eating, or subsisting on, fish..
Subsist :: Subsist (v. i.) To be maintained with food and clothing; to be supported; to live.
Panivorous :: Panivorous (a.) Eating bread; subsisting on bread.
Manor :: Manor (n.) The land belonging to a lord or nobleman, or so much land as a lord or great personage kept in his own hands, for the use and subsistence of his family..
Galactophagist :: Galactophagist (n.) One who eats, or subsists on, milk..
Sustain :: Sustain (v. t.) To maintain; to keep alive; to support; to subsist; to nourish; as, provisions to sustain an army..
Baccivorous :: Baccivorous (a.) Eating, or subsisting on, berries; as, baccivorous birds..
Indigent :: Indigent (a.) Destitute of property or means of comfortable subsistence; needy; poor; in want; necessitous.
Subsistence :: Subsistence (n.) That which furnishes support to animal life; means of support; provisions, or that which produces provisions; livelihood; as, a meager subsistence..
Eleemosynary :: Eleemosynary (n.) One who subsists on charity; a dependent.
Subsistent :: Subsistency (n.) Subsistence.
Plant-eating :: Plant-eating (a.) Eating, or subsisting on, plants; as, a plant-eating beetle..
Ichthyophagist :: Ichthyophagist (n.) One who eats, or subsists on, fish..
Empyrean :: Empyrean (n.) The highest heaven, where the pure element of fire was supposed by the ancients to subsist..
Subsistence :: Subsist (v. t.) To support with provisions; to feed; to maintain; as, to subsist one's family..
Poverty :: Poverty (n.) The quality or state of being poor or indigent; want or scarcity of means of subsistence; indigence; need.
Obtain :: Obtain (v. i.) To become held; to gain or have a firm footing; to be recognized or established; to subsist; to become prevalent or general; to prevail; as, the custom obtains of going to the seashore in summer..
Ration :: Ration (n.) A fixed daily allowance of provisions assigned to a soldier in the army, or a sailor in the navy, for his subsistence..
Trade :: Trade (v.) The business which a person has learned, and which he engages in, for procuring subsistence, or for profit; occupation; especially, mechanical employment as distinguished from the liberal arts, the learned professions, and agriculture; as, we speak of the trade of a smith, of a carpenter, or mason, but not now of the trade of a farmer, or a lawyer, or a physician..
Subsistency :: Subsistence (n.) Same as Hypostasis, 2..
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