subsist

IPA: sʌbsˈɪst

verb

  • To survive on a minimum of resources.
  • (chiefly philosophy) To have ontological reality; to exist.
  • To retain a certain state; to continue.
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Examples of "subsist" in Sentences

  • He subsisted in the cemetery.
  • I subsisted on the local economy.
  • The government provides subsistence.
  • His tomb was subsist in the cemetery.
  • A forager subsists largely upon insects.
  • Fishing is the primary means of subsistence.
  • The Miyana subsist by fishing and agriculture.
  • The agricultural and cattle productions are of subsistence.
  • The majority of the population survives on subsistence farming.
  • The inhabitants of the town lived from subsistence agriculture.
  • The problem, I submit, is in using words like "subsist" which can mean different things to different people and whether these different meanings were intended by the drafters of the documents.
  • And if such a community can exist even though in schism from that visible body wherein the Church of Christ is said to "subsist", that is an admission that the body of Christ can be divided while remaining on both sides of the divide truly the Catholic Church.
  • Sometimes a man will labour for weeks and months in unproductive ground, following up a small vein in the hope of its leading into a good lode, and making so little by his hard toil that on pay day of each month he is compelled to ask his employer for "subsist" -- or a small advance of money -- to enable him to live and go on with his work.
  • As evinced by Vatican II's Lumen Gentium and Unitatis Redintegratio, as well as other pertinent documents since that council closed, the Catholic Church has undergone and fostered the development of ecclesiological doctrine in such a way as to give an account of how the EOs and OOs relate to "the Church," which is said to "subsist" in the Roman communion as a perduring whole.
  • As evinced by Vatican II's Lumen Gentium and Unitatis Redintegratio, as well as other pertinent documents since that council closed, the Catholic Church has undergone and fostered the development of ecclesiological doctrine in such a way as to give an account of how the EOs and OOs relate to "the Church," which is said to "subsist" in the Roman communion as a perduring whole...

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