intransitive. With indirect object (originally in the dative). To exist as a state or condition affecting a person, e.g. me stands rape: I am in…

To have room or occasion to exist; to have being; to exist (in, among, etc.); to be situated, find lodging. Now chiefly in negative contexts. Cf…

To have reality or being. intransitive. With qualifying phrase, as, or †noun complement: to have being in a specified place or manner or under…

intransitive. To rest or consist in something. Obsolete. rare.

intransitive. To have its being or existence in a particular manner, form, or state (now rarely by a particular condition).

to find place: to find room or occasion to dwell or exist, to have being (in something). Cf. senses 3a, 12c.

In passive, to have its seat, be situated. Of an immaterial thing, a quality, feeling, etc.: To have its seat or abode in a certain place.

intransitive. To go a certain way, to fare; to be in a particular state or condition. Now rare.