Verb

To hold up; to lift on high; to elevate.

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To keep erect; to support; to sustain; to keep from falling; to maintain.

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To support by approval or encouragement.

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but there was still a connexion upheld among the different ideas, which succeeded each other.

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.