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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Nomadic :: Nomadic (a.) Of or pertaining to nomads, or their way of life; wandering; moving from place to place for subsistence; as, a nomadic tribe..
Sanguinivorous :: Sanguinivorous (a.) Subsisting on blood.
Subsistence :: Subsistence (n.) Inherency; as, the subsistence of qualities in bodies..
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..
Subsistence :: Subsistence (n.) Real being; existence.
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..
Subsistence :: Subsistence (n.) That which furnishes support to animal life; means of support; provisions, or that which produces provisions; livelihood; as, a meager subsistence..
Subsistence :: Subsist (v. t.) To support with provisions; to feed; to maintain; as, to subsist one's family..
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..
Commissary :: Commissary (n.) An officer whose business is to provide food for a body of troops or a military post; -- officially called commissary of subsistence.
Baccivorous :: Baccivorous (a.) Eating, or subsisting on, berries; as, baccivorous birds..
Hypostasis :: Hypostasis (n.) Substance; subsistence; essence; person; personality; -- used by the early theologians to denote any one of the three subdivisions of the Godhead, the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit..
Sustenance :: Sustenance (n.) The act of sustaining; support; maintenance; subsistence; as, the sustenance of the body; the sustenance of life..
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..
Polyphagous :: Polyphagous (a.) Eating, or subsisting on, many kinds of food; as, polyphagous animals..
Entophyte :: Entophyte (n.) A vegetable parasite subsisting in the interior of the body.
Indigence :: Indigence (n.) The condition of being indigent; want of estate, or means of comfortable subsistence; penury; poverty; as, helpless, indigence..
Consist :: Consist (v. i.) To stand firm; to be in a fixed or permanent state, as a body composed of parts in union or connection; to hold together; to be; to exist; to subsist; to be supported and maintained..
Living :: Living (n.) Means of subsistence; sustenance; estate.
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..
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