Subsist /(?)/

imp. & p. p. Subsisted; p. pr. & vb. n. Subsisting

1. To be; to have existence; to inhere.

   And makes what happiness we justly call, Subsist not in the good of one, but all.

2. To continue; to retain a certain state.

   Firm we subsist, yet possible to swerve.

3. To be maintained with food and clothing; to be supported; to live.

   To subsist on other men's charity.

1. To support with provisions; to feed; to maintain; as, to subsist one's family.

   He laid waste the adjacent country in order to render it more difficult for the enemy to subsist their army.