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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]: 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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