subsisting [
səb'sɪst]
[法] 维持生活的, 存在的, 继续存在的
Subsist \Sub*sist"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Subsisted}; p. pr. &
vb. n. {Subsisting}.] [L. subsistere to stand still, stay,
remain alive; sub under + sistere to stand, to cause to
stand, from stare to stand: cf. F. subsister. See {Stand}.]
1. To be; to have existence; to inhere.
And makes what happiness we justly call,
Subsist not in the good of one, but all. --Pope.
2. To continue; to retain a certain state.
Firm we subsist, yet possible to swerve. --Milton.
3. To be maintained with food and clothing; to be supported;
to live. --Milton.
To subsist on other men's charity. --Atterbury.
- But as the Dow Jones Industrial Average was taking a record plunge yesterday, Ms. Ianotti says she began giving more thought to her mother's stories about subsisting on water and sugar in the Depression.
- The dwindling Contra forces are subsisting on $27 million in food, clothing and medical supplies approved by Congress last month.
- Young people like yourselves are dying in futile wars or barely subsisting with no hope.
- Baker made clear to lawmakers that he does not intend to abandon the Contra rebels, who now are subsisting on U.S. supplies in Honduran jungle camps along the Nicaraguan border.
- She lives and works with them, subsisting on the same $25-a-week allowance that they receive.
- The dwindling Contra forces are subsisting on $27 million in food, clothing and medical supplies approved by Congress last month as part of a Pentagon money bill.