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Subsistence

SUBSIST'ENCE SUBSIST'ENCY, n. Real being; as a chain of differing subsistencies. Not only the things had subsistence, but the very images were of some creatures existing. 1. Competent provisions; means of supp...

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SUBSIST'ENCE

SUBSIST'ENCY, n. Real being; as a chain of differing subsistencies.

Not only the things had subsistence, but the very images were of some creatures existing.

1. Competent provisions; means of supporting life.

His viceroy could only propose to himself a comfortable subsistence out of the plunder of his province.

2. That which supplies the means of living; as money, pay or wages.

3. Inherence in something else, as the subsistence of qualities in bodies.

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