Verb
To be; to have existence; to inhere.
To continue; to retain a certain state.
To be maintained with food and clothing; to be supported; to live.
To support with provisions; to feed; to maintain; as, to subsist one's family.
Source: Webster's dictionaryMan, in his animal capacity, is qualified to subsist in every climate. Adam Ferguson
The bow cannot always stand bent, nor can human frailty subsist without some lawful recreation. Miguel de Cervantes
Exercise ferments the humors, casts them into their proper channels, throws off redundancies, and helps nature in those secret distributions, without which the body cannot subsist in its vigor, nor the soul act with cheerfulness. Joseph Addison
A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue. Daniel Webster
The international community... allows nearly 3 billion people-almost half of all humanity-to subsist on $2 or less a day in a world of unprecedented wealth. Kofi Annan
The occupation of the stock-jobber yields no new or useful product; consequently having no product of his own to give in exchange, he has no revenue to subsist upon, but what he contrives to make out of the unskilfulness or ill-fortune of gamesters like himself. Jean-Baptiste Say