Subsister vs Subsisted - What's the difference?
subsister | subsisted |
One who subsists.
* Andrew Clarke of Comries
(subsist)
To survive on a minimum of resources.
* Atterbury
(mostly, philosophy) To have ontological reality; to exist.
* Alexander Pope
To continue; to retain a certain state.
* Milton
As a noun subsister
is one who subsists.As a verb subsisted is
(subsist).subsister
English
Noun
(en noun)- a race of disobedient children, a progeny of beggars, a nation of bare subsisters on the soil
subsisted
English
Verb
(head)subsist
English
Verb
(en verb)- to subsist on other men's charity
- And makes what happiness we justly call, / Subsist not in the good of one, but all.
- Firm we subsist , yet possible to swerve.