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▪ I. subsisting, vbl. n.|səbˈsɪstɪŋ|
[-ing1.]
The action of the vb. subsist; subsistence.
1597Hooker Eccl. Pol. v. lii. §3 By taking only the nature of man he still continueth one person, and changeth but the maner of his subsisting. 1603in Moryson Itin. (1617) ii. 276 The danger of his [sc. Tyrone's] subsisting as he doth, is..to maintaine still a loose head of Rebellion. 1690Locke Hum. Und. ii. xxiii. §3 note, Your lordship has the idea of subsisting by itself. 1706Lond. Gaz. No. 4195/1 His Majesty had received a..Supply of Money.., for the paying and subsisting..of his..troops. 1719De Foe Crusoe i. (Globe) 63, I had a tolerable View of subsisting, without any Want as long as I liv'd.
b. attrib. in subsisting diet = subsistence diet (see subsistence 11).
1865L. Playfair Food of Man 8 In looking for a purely subsisting diet, we naturally turn to the experience of hospitals having convalescent patients unable still to take exercise.
▪ II. subˈsisting, ppl. a.
[-ing2.]
†1. Existing substantially, substantial. Obs.
1674Owen Disc. Holy Spirit i. iii. 54 He [sc. the Holy Ghost] was represented by a subsisting Substance.
†2. Abiding, lasting. Obs.
1613Wither Abuses Stript i. Concl., Juvenilia (1633) 112 Shee hath no power to see The better things that more subsisting bee. 1678J. Brown Life of Faith (1824) I. vii. 138 Not only would the faith of this help to a subsisting life but..to a life of joy.
3. Existing at a specified or implied time.
1765Blackstone Comm. i. viii. 276 Where there is a subsisting lease, of which there are twenty years still to come. 1794Paley Evid. iii. ii. (1800) II. 302 It appears in the Christian records..as being the subsisting opinion of the age and country in which his ministry was exercised. 1818Cruise Digest (ed. 2) II. 325 This not being a remainder created by that deed, but a conveyance of the then subsisting reversion or remainder expectant on the death of M. 1858Gladstone Homer III. 9 Independently of sovereignties purely local..we find a subsisting Pelopid empire. 1859Mill Liberty i. (1865) 5 The still subsisting habit of looking on the government as representing an opposite interest to the public.
Hence † subˈsistingly adv., enduringly.
a1641Mountagu Acts & Mon. (1642) 72 But that Fabrick, whereon subsistingly doth it rely? |