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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]: exist v 1: have an existence, be extant; "Is there a God?" [syn: {be}] 2: stay alive; survive; "he could barely exist on such a low wage" [syn: {survive}, {live}, {subsist}]
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