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Subsister vs Subsisted - What's the difference?

subsister | subsisted |

As a noun subsister

is one who subsists.

As a verb subsisted is

(subsist).

subsister

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • One who subsists.
  • * Andrew Clarke of Comries
  • a race of disobedient children, a progeny of beggars, a nation of bare subsisters on the soil
    ----

    subsisted

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (subsist)

  • subsist

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To survive on a minimum of resources.
  • * Atterbury
  • to subsist on other men's charity
  • (mostly, philosophy) To have ontological reality; to exist.
  • * Alexander Pope
  • And makes what happiness we justly call, / Subsist not in the good of one, but all.
  • To continue; to retain a certain state.
  • * Milton
  • Firm we subsist , yet possible to swerve.