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Subsistence   /səbsˈɪstəns/   Listen
noun
Subsistence  n.  
1.
Real being; existence. "Not only the things had subsistence, but the very images were of some creatures existing."
2.
Inherency; as, the subsistence of qualities in bodies.
3.
That which furnishes support to animal life; means of support; provisions, or that which produces provisions; livelihood; as, a meager subsistence. "His viceroy could only propose to himself a comfortable subsistence out of the plunder of his province."
4.
(Theol.) Same as Hypostasis, 2.





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"Subsistence" Quotes from Famous Books



... by the fact that these noxious pests do not remain with all people who have been exposed to them, but only with those whose internal or external filth conditions furnish the parasites with the means of subsistence. ...
— Nature Cure • Henry Lindlahr
... Campbell's power; for though his income, by pay and appointments, was handsome, his fortune was moderate and must be all his daughter's; but, by giving her an education, he hoped to be supplying the means of respectable subsistence hereafter. ...
— Persuasion • Jane Austen
... warm breath upon his throat. He wept. Who had loved him save Father Chaumonot? None. Like an eagle at sea, he was alone. God had given him a handsome face, but He had also given him an alternate—starvation or the robes. He was a beggar; the gown was his subsistence. By and by his sobs subsided, and he ...
— The Grey Cloak • Harold MacGrath
... going to bring me? This question, so legitimate while it concerns those precautions which each ought to take to assure his subsistence by his labor, becomes pernicious as soon as it passes its limits and dominates the whole life. This is so true that it vitiates even the toil which gains our daily bread. I furnish paid labor; nothing could be better: but if to inspire ...
— The Simple Life • Charles Wagner
... the northwest coast were seafarers; they inhabited the forest and worshiped the animals which were peculiar to the forest and took as their totems the eagle, wolf and raven, but they drew their subsistence in great part from the sea. They worshiped the animals of the seas, such as the shark, the whale and the sculpin. Their skill and courage as navigators have never been equaled. Taking their families and the few articles of commerce gathered from the forest they entered the symmetrical and beautifully ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 1157, March 5, 1898 • Various


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