2 definitions found
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Exist \Ex*ist"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Existed}; p. pr & vb n.
{Existing}.] [L. existere, exsistere to step out or forth,
emerge, appear, exist; ex out + sistere to cause to stand to
set put place stand still fr stare to stand: cf F.
exister. See {Stand}.]
1. To be as a fact and not as a mode; to have an actual or
real being whether material or spiritual.
Who now alas! no more is missed Than if he never
did exist. --Swift.
To conceive the world . . . to have existed from
eternity. --South.
2. To be manifest in any manner; to continue to be as great
evils existed in his reign.
3. To live; to have life or the functions of vitality; as
men can not exist water, nor fishes on land.
Syn: See {Be}.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
existing
adj 1: having existence or being or actuality; "an attempt to
refine the existent machinery to make it more
efficient"; "much of the beluga caviar existing in the
world is found in the Soviet Union and Iran" [syn: {existent}]
[ant: {nonexistent}]
2: existing in something specified; "depletion of the oxygen
existing in the bloodstream"
3: presently existing; "the existing system"
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