exist

[ex·ist]

The verb exist means to live, to have reality. Dodos no longer exist because they were hunted to extinction.

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To be as a fact and not as a mode; to have an actual or real being, whether material or spiritual.

Verb
have an existence, be extant; "Is there a God?"

Verb
support oneself; "he could barely exist on such a low wage"; "Can you live on $2000 a month in New York City?"; "Many people in the world have to subsist on $1 a day"


v. i.
To be as a fact and not as a mode; to have an actual or real being, whether material or spiritual.

v. i.
To be manifest in any manner; to continue to be; as, great evils existed in his reign.

v. i.
To live; to have life or the functions of vitality; as, men can not exist water, nor fishes on land.


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.
To conceive the world . . . to have existed from eternity.
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.

To be as a fact and not as a mode; to have an actual or real being, whether material or spiritual.

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Usage Examples

Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed.

Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist.

At fifteen, beauty and talent do not exist there can only be promise of the coming woman.

But let me tell you what happens when regulations go too far, when they seem to exist only for the purpose of justifying the existence of a regulator. It kills the people trying to start a business.

But if nothing but soul, or in soul mind, is qualified to count, it is impossible for there to be time unless there is soul, but only that of which time is an attribute, i.e. if change can exist without soul.

Any change is resisted because bureaucrats have a vested interest in the chaos in which they exist.

A world community can exist only with world communication, which means something more than extensive short-wave facilities scattered about the globe. It means common understanding, a common tradition, common ideas, and common ideals.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

Common sense tells us that the things of the earth exist only a little, and that true reality is only in dreams.

Back then I didn't think a woman like that, or a relationship like that, could exist with complete freedom and no jealousy or possessiveness. I thought it sounded too good to be true and I was certainly convinced it wasn't the life for me!

But whether the Constitution really be one thing, or another, this much is certain - that it has either authorized such a government as we have had, or has been powerless to prevent it. In either case, it is unfit to exist.

And I have no doubt that every new example will succeed, as every past one has done, in showing that religion and Government will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together.

A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works.

Contrary to current cynicism about past golden ages, the abstraction known as 'the intelligent layperson' does exist - in the form of millions of folks with a passionate commitment to continuous learning.

A civilized nation can have no enemies, and one cannot draw a line across a map, a line that doesn't even exist in nature and say that the ugly enemy lives on the one side, and good friends live on the other.

A purely objective viewpoint does not exist in the cosmos or in politics.

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