subsistence
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[edit] English
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[edit] Etymology
< Late Latin subsistentia (“‘substance, reality, in Medieval Latin also stability’”) < Latin subsistens, ppr. of subsistere (“‘to continue, subsist’”); see subsist.
[edit] Noun
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subsistence (plural subsistences)
- Real being; existence.
- Inherency; as, the subsistence of qualities in bodies.
- That which furnishes support to animal life; means of support; provisions, or that which produces provisions; livelihood; as, a meager subsistence.
- (theology) A person, specifically the person of Christ or of another part of the Trinity; hypostasis.
[edit] Synonyms
- sustenance
- (theology): hypostasis
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[edit] External links
- subsistence in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- subsistence in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
