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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. The act or state of subsisting.
  2. n. A means of subsisting, especially means barely sufficient to maintain life.
  3. n. Something that has real or substantial existence.
  4. n. Christianity Hypostasis.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. Real being; actual existence.
  2. n. Continuance; continued existence.
  3. n. That which exists or has real being.
  4. n. The act or process of furnishing support to animal life, or that which is furnished; means of support; support; livelihood.
  5. n. The state of being subsistent; inherence in something else: as. the subsistence of qualities in bodies.
  6. n. Synonyms Sustenance, etc. See living.

Wiktionary

  1. n. Real being; existence.
  2. n. Inherency; as, the subsistence of qualities in bodies.
  3. n. That which furnishes support to animal life; means of support; provisions, or that which produces provisions; livelihood; as, a meager subsistence.
  4. n. theology A person, specifically the person of Christ or of another part of the Trinity; hypostasis.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. Real being; existence.
  2. n. Inherency.
  3. n. That which furnishes support to animal life; means of support; provisions, or that which produces provisions; livelihood.
  4. n. (Theol.) Same as Hypostasis, 2.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. minimal (or marginal) resources for subsisting
  2. n. the state of existing in reality; having substance
  3. n. a means of surviving

Etymologies

  1. From Late Latin subsistentia ("substance, reality, in Medieval Latin also stability"), from Latin subsistens, present participle of subsistere ("to continue, subsist"); see subsist. (Wiktionary)

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