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† eˈxistency Obs.
[ad. med.L. existentia: see prec. and -ency.]
1. The fact or state of existing; continuance of being; = existence 2.
1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. iii. xiii. 137 It..may be doubted whether it be of existency, or really any such stone in the head of a Toad at all. 1654S. Ashe Fun. Serm. 10 Mar. 25 The existency of Christ in Believers giveth existence to their hopes of glory. 1677Hale Prim. Orig. Man. i. v. 113 It is impossible that any Being can be eternal with..variety of states or manner of existency. 1683J. Pordage Myst. Div. 1 Before the Globe of Eternity was in existency. 1708H. Dodwell Nat. Mortal. Human Souls 5 Existency depending on the arbitrary Divine Pleasure.
b. A state or mode of being.
1710Tatler No. 246 ⁋1 We stand in the middle of existencies [i.e. between angels and brutes].
2. Something which exists; a being, an entity; = existence 4.
1628T. Spencer Logick 202 A whole, sayth he, is twofold, viz. Vniversall; or a totall existency. 1631Celestina i. 5 See what difference there is betwixt apparencies and existencies. 1691Ed. Taylor tr. Behmen's Theos. Philos. 338 Where lye innumerable multiplicity of Existencies or Beings. 1824Westm. Rev. I. 480 By the greater intensity of sensations..we judge of real existencies.
b. A concrete form; a substance.
1651W. G. tr. Cowel's Inst. 235 And bodies Politick have not visible Existencies whereby they may be taken. |