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† subˈsistency Obs.
[ad. late L. subsistentia subsistence.]
1. Theol. = subsistence 6, hypostasis 5.
1592tr. Junius on Rev. i. 4 This Spirit is one in person according to his subsistencie. 1652Benlowes Theoph. Pref., One Essence, Three Subsistencies. 1701Norris Ideal World i. v. 240 The second of those three subsistencies which the Catholic Faith teaches us to believe and adore in the one undivided essence of God.
2. A thing that has a substantial existence; = subsistence 2.
1652Benlowes Theoph. Author's prayer 17 Eternal Principle of all substances, essential Being of all Subsistencies. 1665Glanvill Scepsis Sci. iii. 11 We know as little how the union is dissolved, that is the chain of the so differing subsistencies that compound us, as how it first commenced. 1768Tucker Lt. Nat. (1834) I. 335 The ancients, holding the eternity of forms and ideas, supposed them subsistencies inexisting within the divine mind.
3. = subsistence 4.
1628T. Spencer Logick 17 A first, or individuall substance, may be taken two wayes: one way, for every thing that hath a substance; another way, for a compleat subsistency, in the nature of any species.
4. Continued existence; = subsistence 5.
1642H. More Song of Soul ii. iii. iv. 21 Nor of well-being, nor subsistency Of our poor souls, when they do hence depart, Can any be assur'd. 1651N. Bacon Disc. Gov. Eng. ii. xiii. (1739) 69 Maintaining thereby their subsistency by the consistence of the Members together. 1658Sir T. Browne Hydriot. v. 28 A great part of Antiquity contented their hopes of subsistency with a transmigration of their souls. 1682tr. Erastus' Treat. Excomm. 40 Whenever Christ made any new Institution, he omitted nothing that was requisite to its being and subsistency. |