v. i.
And makes what happiness we justly call,
Subsist not in the good of one, but all. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]
Firm we subsist, yet possible to swerve. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]
To subsist on other men's charity. Atterbury. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. t. To support with provisions; to feed; to maintain;
He laid waste the adjacent country in order to render it more difficult for the enemy to subsist their army. Robertson. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ Cf. F. subsistance, L. subsistentia. ]
Not only the things had subsistence, but the very images were of some creatures existing. Stillingfleet. [ 1913 Webster ]
His viceroy could only propose to himself a comfortable subsistence out of the plunder of his province. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]
. (Mil.) A staff department of the United States army charged, under the supervision of the Chief of Staff, with the purchasing and issuing to the army of such supplies as make up the ration. It also supplies, for authorized sales, certain articles of food and other minor stores. It is commanded by any officer of the rank of brigadier general, called commissary general, and the department is popularly called the
n. Subsistence. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ L. subsistens, p. pr. See Subsist. ]