subsist
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Is subsist a Scrabble word?
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Definition
verb (English)
1. (chiefly philosophy) To have ontological reality; to exist.Examples: "Remember Man! "the Univerſal Cauſe / Acts not by partial, but by gen’ral Laws ; / And makes what Happineſs we juſtly call / Subſiſt not in the Good of one, but all."; "Subject to section 5(1), copyright subsists only by virtue of this Act."
2. (transitive, obsolete) To supply sustenance or subsistence to or for.Examples: "With mutual toil, and intuitive dexterity, we built our commodious habitation in the hollow of a mango tree, that the fruit, which was then in bloſſom, might ſubſiſt our young."obsoletetransitive
Definition source: Wiktionary