subsistentadj.n.

Brit.

/səbˈsɪst(ə)nt/, U.S.

/səbˈsɪstənt/

Forms: 1500s–1600s subsistant, 1500s– subsistent.

Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Partly a borrowing from French. Etymons: Latin subsistent-, subsistēns, subsistere; French subsistant.

Etymology: Partly < classical Latin subsistent-, subsistēns, present participle of subsistere subsist v., and partly < Middle French subsistant existing by itself (1375), continuing to exist (1592 in the passage translated in quot. 1603 at sense A. 3; French subsistant ), use as adjective of present participle of subsister subsist v.; compare -ant suffix¹ and -ent suffix. Compare Spanish subsistente (16th cent.), Italian subsistente (1611 in Florio). With use as noun compare post-classical Latin subsistens thing that subsists, substance (from 12th cent. in British sources).With sense A. 2 compare earlier substantial adj. 10 and also subsisting adj. 1. With sense B. 1 compare earlier assistant n. With sense B. 2 compare earlier subsistence n. 2a. With sense B. 3 compare earlier subsistence n. 2c.

A. adj.

1. That inheres or resides in (a body, etc.).

ΘΚΠ

the world > existence and causation > existence > intrinsicality or inherence > [adjective]

propera1325

indwelling14..

resident1525

subsistenta1530

corporate1531

immanent1535

intrinsical?1545

integral1551

inexistent1553

internal1564

subjective1564

insident1583

inward1587

inherent1588

imminent1605

inhering1609

intern1612

subjectory1614

intimate1632

inhesive1639

intrinsic1642

implantate1650

medullary1651

implicit1658

inexisting1678

originala1682

indwelt1855

a1530 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfeccyon (1531) iii. f. Clxxxxvii^v How & after what maner those .iij. persones be subsistent in one deite.

1607 R. Parker Scholasticall Disc. against Antichrist i. ii. 114 A gesture of prayer either explicit or implicit at the least, and that not by it selfe existent, but subsistent in prayer.

1692 R. Bentley Boyle Lect. ii. 18 No sensible Qualities, as Light, and Colour, and Heat, and Sound, can be subsistent in the Bodies themselves absolutely consider'd, without a relation to our Eyes, and Ears, and other Organs of Sense.

1749 S. Berington Modest Enq. Catholicks iv. 70 The Church of Christ..could never become Invisible; nor subsistent in different Communions.

1852 Chambers's Edinb. Jrnl. 27 Nov. 338 The endowments, impulses, and aspirations that are constitutionally subsistent in our nature.

1870 E. Mulford Nation xi. 207 The strength and consistency of the judiciary in its historical course has been in the fact that it recognized the necessary being of the nation, as subsistent in the sphere of public or national law.

2004 A. K. M. Adam in C. H. Cosgrove Meanings we Choose 27 We should observe the authorial and audience-oriented constraints at work on communication in order to find the perspective that correctly illuminates the meaning subsistent in the text.

a. Existing substantially or really; existing of or by itself.

ΘΚΠ

the world > existence and causation > existence > substantiality or concreteness > [adjective]

substantiala1425

subsistent1597

subsisting1597

substant1618

subsistential1620

substanding1662

substantive1787

substantival1884

1597 Bp. J. King Lect. Ionas xi. 154 Having the helpe of religion, the knowledge of the true subsistent God, & able to giue a reckoning of every parcel of his creation.

1617 S. Collins Epphata to F. T. ii. viii. 294 Things essentiall, or subsistent, not Chimeraes onely.

1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica i. x. 42 Those which deny there are spirits subsistent without bodies.

a1688 R. Cudworth Treat. Eternal & Immutable Morality (1731) i. ii. 17 The Modes of all Subsistent Beings..are immutably and necessarily what they are.

1701 J. Norris Ess. Ideal World I. iii. 145 Since God is very subsistent being nothing of the perfection of being can be wanting to him.

1766 Christian's Mag. May 263 It is generally agreed on by all philosophers, that..whatever acts is a subsistent thing.

1884 tr. A. Rosmini Serbati Origin of Ideas III. iii. ii. 122 We, as subsistent sensitive beings, come into immediate communication or union with the subsistent beings around us.

1909 Webster's New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. Subsistent form, Schol., a form capable of existing apart from matter.

2004 Rev. Metaphysics 58 344 A human soul is a subsistent being.

b. Subsisting at a specified or implied time. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > existence and causation > existence > [adjective] > existent or existing > at a specific time or subsisting

subsisting1611

subsistent1638

1638 L. Roberts Merchants Mappe of Commerce lxxxii. 166 The trade of Persia as it is found subsistent in these daies, consisteth more by an Inland then a maritime traffique.

1680 J. Owen Contin. Expos. Epist. Paul vii. 186 All Truth is Eternal, and in it self equally subsistent and present unto all Ages.

1776 R. E. Raspe tr. J. J. Ferber Trav. Italy xi. 134 There have been new eruptions from the sunk tunnel, which by accumulated lavas and ashes have successively raised the now subsistent Vesuvius.

1832 T. Carlyle Death Goethe in Crit. & Misc. Ess. (1840) IV. 120 Men whose Impulse had not completed its development till after fifteen hundred years, and might perhaps be seen still individually subsistent after two thousand.

1849 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 65 206 Such words must be accepted as serious indications of subsistent evil.

1922 J. A. Leighton Man & Cosmos ii. xii. 151 Beforeness, afterness, causality,..lovingness, etc.—such universals are relations which appear to have an eternally subsistent being.

3. That continues in existence, lasting. In later use chiefly in legal contexts: remaining in effect or force.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > change > absence of change, changelessness > lasting quality, permanence > [adjective]

stablea1300

durablec1386

during1398

durant1455

permanent?a1475

standingc1480

perseverablea1500

indelible1532

of long standinga1568

permansible1568

long-established1589

dureful1595

subsistent1603

subsisting1613

staple1621

constant1645

long-standing1655

throughout1701

untemporary1784

pukka1801

rock-ribbed1903

hardwired1971

1603 J. Florio tr. M. de Montaigne Ess. ii. xii. 350 Seeing all things are subject to passe from one change to another; reason..findes hir selfe deceived, as vnable to apprehend any thing subsistant [Fr. subsistant] and permanent.

a1644 F. Quarles Solomon's Recantation (1688) 58 It's God alone who hath..his Eternal and Subsistent Idea, by which he can distinctly see all things possible, present and to come.

1895 Metaphysical Mag. Aug. 157 The subsistent idea is that human nature is surely rising, even though its upward career be by way of a spiral pathway rather than up an inclined plane.

1903 Southern Reporter 44 297/1 The..company had a subsistent contract for the possession and use of this car.

1997 Glasgow Herald 26 May 6 You must have a valid and subsistent marriage.

†a. Having means of subsistence. Obsolete.Apparently an isolated use.

ΚΠ

1751 H. Walpole Let. 22 Apr. (1846) II. 383 The Prince's servants could no longer oppose, if they meant to be consistent. I told this to Mr. Chute, who replied instantly, ‘Pho! he meant subsistent.’

b. Of a person: dependent on (also upon) a specified source of money, food, etc., for subsistence; making a living by a particular occupation. Cf. subsist v. 3.

ΚΠ

1833 True Sun 21 Nov. The defendant was solely subsistent on his half-pay, and..any heavy sentence would be ruinous to him.

1872 R. Browning Fifine xii. 11 God-fearing householder, subsistent by brain-skill, hand-labour.

1904 Jrnl. Hygiene Jan. 115 The coolies, who alone were subsistent upon the contract diet.

1999 Tampa Bay (Florida) Times 24 July 1 b The tribe is virtually subsistent on gambling revenues.

c. Providing a means of subsistence; adequate to maintain a livelihood or (more usually) a minimal standard of living.

ΚΠ

1894 Reynolds's Newspaper 25 Nov. 2/4 All the unemployed and those receiving a bare subsistent wage.

1919 D. Goldstein & M. M. Avery Bolshevism vii. 306 Wages must gradually, yet inevitably, fall to the lowest subsistent level.

1976 Ludington (Mich.) Daily News 10 Jan. 4/1 Once having learned to be ‘economically productive’ on the pipeline and other related activities, will they ever be content to return to a wholly subsistent way of life?

2010 Sunday Times (S. Afr.) (Nexis) 17 Oct. (Natal Metro ed.) An urgent application in the Chennai Court to compel him to provide a subsistent income for her and her two sons.

d. Designating agriculture in which the produce is used for the producer's own subsistence and not for exchange; relating to or involved in such agriculture. Cf. subsistence n. Compounds 1b.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > farming > [adjective] > types of farming

all-organic1917

subsistent1934

organic1942

agribusiness1957

dry-land farm1976

1934 Lawrence (Kansas) Daily Jrnl.-World 22 Mar. 2/4 Subsistent farming, which is nothing but feudalism.

1942 Economist 3 Oct. 409/1 From being self-sufficient subsistent farmers,..the islanders became exposed to the vagaries of world markets.

1966 J. E. Spencer Shifting Cultiv. in Southeastern Asia vii. 159 Many groups do practice a subsistent crop-growing and food-consuming system within the framework of a whole economy that cannot be labeled subsistent.

1991 Impact of Sci. on Society (UNESCO) No. 162. 142 If transport costs are too high, producing for the secondary market could simply make the household worse off than if it remained subsistent.

B. n.

†1. A person who undertakes subordinate duties; an assistant, inferior. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > subjection > [noun] > one subject to authority

underlingc1175

subjectc1330

underloutc1340

undermana1400

ledec1400

undererc1449

subjectary?c1500

footstool1531

suppost1547

ditionary1555

justiciable1595

governeda1599

subsistent1598

subordinate1603

subservient1643

sub1653

subjugate1773

under-sawyer1864

directee1928

1598 R. Barret Theorike & Pract. Mod. Warres v. 151 Hee hath subsistants and ministers to performe their office.

1621 W. Loe Vox Clamantis Ep. Ded. sig. A4 For the vnfained loue I beare vnto..the present setled subsistants of the discipline of our Church, I would..hazard my weake body.

2. Theology. = subsistence n. 2a. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the supernatural > deity > Christian God > the Trinity > [noun] > person of

persona1325

governorc1400

hypostasisa1529

hypostasy1551

subsistence1551

subsistency1577

inbeing1587

subsistent1650

personality1678

prosopon1842

1650 F. Cheynell Divine Trinunity vi. 88 This subsisting in one another doth not argue any imperfection, but doth demonstrate the infinite perfection of all Three Subsistents.

1673 J. Flavell Fountain of Life v. 51 The second person, or subsistent in the glorious Godhead.

1694 J. Howe Let. to Friend 56 To say that all perfection is in each subsistent (which I like better than subsistence, as more expressive of the concrete).

a1731 J. Hurrion Scriptural Doctr. of Holy Spirit (1734) 207 A divine person is one single subsistent in the Godhead.

a1802 T. Bell View Covenants Wks. & Grace (1814) 434 The Father is a person, a subsistent in the Godhead.

1981 R. Christophersen tr. L. O. Nielson Theol. & Philos. 20th Cent. 162 The question might be raised whether this talk of three subsistents and not of one subsistent has any basis in the actual distinction.

3. gen. A being or thing that subsists or exists by itself. Now chiefly in philosophical contexts.

ΘΚΠ

the world > existence and causation > existence > substantiality or concreteness > [noun] > substantiality or subsistence > that which has substantial existence

substance1340

substant1597

substantiality1603

subsistence1605

subsistencya1628

existency1651

subsistent1656

substander1662

1656 T. Stanley Hist. Philos. II. viii. 28 The place of significats is divided into phantasies, and subsistents on phantasie, dicibles, axioms, &c.

1694 R. Burthogge Ess. Reason 244 It becomes a Suppositum or Subsistent by it self.

1789 T. Taylor Hist. Restoration Platonic Theol. in tr. Proclus Philos. & Math. Comm. II. 244 Either nothing is self-subsistent; or the good itself is such; or things which are the first subsistents from the good.

1884 tr. A. Rosmini Psychol. (1886) II. iv. vi. 360 The possibility of the subsistence of many individuals, many ones, many Egos, many subsistents.

1906 Athenæum 17 July 204/1 These primary facts fall into three orders: the orders of physical and psychical existents, and objects of thought (such as relations, numbers, &c.), which may be called objective subsistents.

1996 Noûs 30 457 God could have made another world, and in so doing he would have caused to exist subsistents other than any that actually exist.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	subsistent
释义	subsistentadj.n. Brit. /səbˈsɪst(ə)nt/, U.S. /səbˈsɪstənt/ Forms: 1500s–1600s subsistant, 1500s– subsistent. Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Partly a borrowing from French. Etymons: Latin subsistent-, subsistēns, subsistere; French subsistant. Etymology: Partly < classical Latin subsistent-, subsistēns, present participle of subsistere subsist v., and partly < Middle French subsistant existing by itself (1375), continuing to exist (1592 in the passage translated in quot. 1603 at sense A. 3; French subsistant ), use as adjective of present participle of subsister subsist v.; compare -ant suffix¹ and -ent suffix. Compare Spanish subsistente (16th cent.), Italian subsistente (1611 in Florio). With use as noun compare post-classical Latin subsistens thing that subsists, substance (from 12th cent. in British sources).With sense A. 2 compare earlier substantial adj. 10 and also subsisting adj. 1. With sense B. 1 compare earlier assistant n. With sense B. 2 compare earlier subsistence n. 2a. With sense B. 3 compare earlier subsistence n. 2c. A. adj. 1. That inheres or resides in (a body, etc.). ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > existence > intrinsicality or inherence > [adjective] propera1325 indwelling14.. resident1525 subsistenta1530 corporate1531 immanent1535 intrinsical?1545 integral1551 inexistent1553 internal1564 subjective1564 insident1583 inward1587 inherent1588 imminent1605 inhering1609 intern1612 subjectory1614 intimate1632 inhesive1639 intrinsic1642 implantate1650 medullary1651 implicit1658 inexisting1678 originala1682 indwelt1855 a1530 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfeccyon (1531) iii. f. Clxxxxvii^v How & after what maner those .iij. persones be subsistent in one deite. 1607 R. Parker Scholasticall Disc. against Antichrist i. ii. 114 A gesture of prayer either explicit or implicit at the least, and that not by it selfe existent, but subsistent in prayer. 1692 R. Bentley Boyle Lect. ii. 18 No sensible Qualities, as Light, and Colour, and Heat, and Sound, can be subsistent in the Bodies themselves absolutely consider'd, without a relation to our Eyes, and Ears, and other Organs of Sense. 1749 S. Berington Modest Enq. Catholicks iv. 70 The Church of Christ..could never become Invisible; nor subsistent in different Communions. 1852 Chambers's Edinb. Jrnl. 27 Nov. 338 The endowments, impulses, and aspirations that are constitutionally subsistent in our nature. 1870 E. Mulford Nation xi. 207 The strength and consistency of the judiciary in its historical course has been in the fact that it recognized the necessary being of the nation, as subsistent in the sphere of public or national law. 2004 A. K. M. Adam in C. H. Cosgrove Meanings we Choose 27 We should observe the authorial and audience-oriented constraints at work on communication in order to find the perspective that correctly illuminates the meaning subsistent in the text. 2. a. Existing substantially or really; existing of or by itself. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > existence > substantiality or concreteness > [adjective] substantiala1425 subsistent1597 subsisting1597 substant1618 subsistential1620 substanding1662 substantive1787 substantival1884 1597 Bp. J. King Lect. Ionas xi. 154 Having the helpe of religion, the knowledge of the true subsistent God, & able to giue a reckoning of every parcel of his creation. 1617 S. Collins Epphata to F. T. ii. viii. 294 Things essentiall, or subsistent, not Chimeraes onely. 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica i. x. 42 Those which deny there are spirits subsistent without bodies. a1688 R. Cudworth Treat. Eternal & Immutable Morality (1731) i. ii. 17 The Modes of all Subsistent Beings..are immutably and necessarily what they are. 1701 J. Norris Ess. Ideal World I. iii. 145 Since God is very subsistent being nothing of the perfection of being can be wanting to him. 1766 Christian's Mag. May 263 It is generally agreed on by all philosophers, that..whatever acts is a subsistent thing. 1884 tr. A. Rosmini Serbati Origin of Ideas III. iii. ii. 122 We, as subsistent sensitive beings, come into immediate communication or union with the subsistent beings around us. 1909 Webster's New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. Subsistent form, Schol., a form capable of existing apart from matter. 2004 Rev. Metaphysics 58 344 A human soul is a subsistent being. b. Subsisting at a specified or implied time. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > existence > [adjective] > existent or existing > at a specific time or subsisting subsisting1611 subsistent1638 1638 L. Roberts Merchants Mappe of Commerce lxxxii. 166 The trade of Persia as it is found subsistent in these daies, consisteth more by an Inland then a maritime traffique. 1680 J. Owen Contin. Expos. Epist. Paul vii. 186 All Truth is Eternal, and in it self equally subsistent and present unto all Ages. 1776 R. E. Raspe tr. J. J. Ferber Trav. Italy xi. 134 There have been new eruptions from the sunk tunnel, which by accumulated lavas and ashes have successively raised the now subsistent Vesuvius. 1832 T. Carlyle Death Goethe in Crit. & Misc. Ess. (1840) IV. 120 Men whose Impulse had not completed its development till after fifteen hundred years, and might perhaps be seen still individually subsistent after two thousand. 1849 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 65 206 Such words must be accepted as serious indications of subsistent evil. 1922 J. A. Leighton Man & Cosmos ii. xii. 151 Beforeness, afterness, causality,..lovingness, etc.—such universals are relations which appear to have an eternally subsistent being. 3. That continues in existence, lasting. In later use chiefly in legal contexts: remaining in effect or force. ΘΚΠ the world > time > change > absence of change, changelessness > lasting quality, permanence > [adjective] stablea1300 durablec1386 during1398 durant1455 permanent?a1475 standingc1480 perseverablea1500 indelible1532 of long standinga1568 permansible1568 long-established1589 dureful1595 subsistent1603 subsisting1613 staple1621 constant1645 long-standing1655 throughout1701 untemporary1784 pukka1801 rock-ribbed1903 hardwired1971 1603 J. Florio tr. M. de Montaigne Ess. ii. xii. 350 Seeing all things are subject to passe from one change to another; reason..findes hir selfe deceived, as vnable to apprehend any thing subsistant [Fr. subsistant] and permanent. a1644 F. Quarles Solomon's Recantation (1688) 58 It's God alone who hath..his Eternal and Subsistent Idea, by which he can distinctly see all things possible, present and to come. 1895 Metaphysical Mag. Aug. 157 The subsistent idea is that human nature is surely rising, even though its upward career be by way of a spiral pathway rather than up an inclined plane. 1903 Southern Reporter 44 297/1 The..company had a subsistent contract for the possession and use of this car. 1997 Glasgow Herald 26 May 6 You must have a valid and subsistent marriage. 4. †a. Having means of subsistence. Obsolete.Apparently an isolated use. ΚΠ 1751 H. Walpole Let. 22 Apr. (1846) II. 383 The Prince's servants could no longer oppose, if they meant to be consistent. I told this to Mr. Chute, who replied instantly, ‘Pho! he meant subsistent.’ b. Of a person: dependent on (also upon) a specified source of money, food, etc., for subsistence; making a living by a particular occupation. Cf. subsist v. 3. ΚΠ 1833 True Sun 21 Nov. The defendant was solely subsistent on his half-pay, and..any heavy sentence would be ruinous to him. 1872 R. Browning Fifine xii. 11 God-fearing householder, subsistent by brain-skill, hand-labour. 1904 Jrnl. Hygiene Jan. 115 The coolies, who alone were subsistent upon the contract diet. 1999 Tampa Bay (Florida) Times 24 July 1 b The tribe is virtually subsistent on gambling revenues. c. Providing a means of subsistence; adequate to maintain a livelihood or (more usually) a minimal standard of living. ΚΠ 1894 Reynolds's Newspaper 25 Nov. 2/4 All the unemployed and those receiving a bare subsistent wage. 1919 D. Goldstein & M. M. Avery Bolshevism vii. 306 Wages must gradually, yet inevitably, fall to the lowest subsistent level. 1976 Ludington (Mich.) Daily News 10 Jan. 4/1 Once having learned to be ‘economically productive’ on the pipeline and other related activities, will they ever be content to return to a wholly subsistent way of life? 2010 Sunday Times (S. Afr.) (Nexis) 17 Oct. (Natal Metro ed.) An urgent application in the Chennai Court to compel him to provide a subsistent income for her and her two sons. d. Designating agriculture in which the produce is used for the producer's own subsistence and not for exchange; relating to or involved in such agriculture. Cf. subsistence n. Compounds 1b. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > [adjective] > types of farming all-organic1917 subsistent1934 organic1942 agribusiness1957 dry-land farm1976 1934 Lawrence (Kansas) Daily Jrnl.-World 22 Mar. 2/4 Subsistent farming, which is nothing but feudalism. 1942 Economist 3 Oct. 409/1 From being self-sufficient subsistent farmers,..the islanders became exposed to the vagaries of world markets. 1966 J. E. Spencer Shifting Cultiv. in Southeastern Asia vii. 159 Many groups do practice a subsistent crop-growing and food-consuming system within the framework of a whole economy that cannot be labeled subsistent. 1991 Impact of Sci. on Society (UNESCO) No. 162. 142 If transport costs are too high, producing for the secondary market could simply make the household worse off than if it remained subsistent. B. n. †1. A person who undertakes subordinate duties; an assistant, inferior. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > [noun] > one subject to authority underlingc1175 subjectc1330 underloutc1340 undermana1400 ledec1400 undererc1449 subjectary?c1500 footstool1531 suppost1547 ditionary1555 justiciable1595 governeda1599 subsistent1598 subordinate1603 subservient1643 sub1653 subjugate1773 under-sawyer1864 directee1928 1598 R. Barret Theorike & Pract. Mod. Warres v. 151 Hee hath subsistants and ministers to performe their office. 1621 W. Loe Vox Clamantis Ep. Ded. sig. A4 For the vnfained loue I beare vnto..the present setled subsistants of the discipline of our Church, I would..hazard my weake body. 2. Theology. = subsistence n. 2a. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > deity > Christian God > the Trinity > [noun] > person of persona1325 governorc1400 hypostasisa1529 hypostasy1551 subsistence1551 subsistency1577 inbeing1587 subsistent1650 personality1678 prosopon1842 1650 F. Cheynell Divine Trinunity vi. 88 This subsisting in one another doth not argue any imperfection, but doth demonstrate the infinite perfection of all Three Subsistents. 1673 J. Flavell Fountain of Life v. 51 The second person, or subsistent in the glorious Godhead. 1694 J. Howe Let. to Friend 56 To say that all perfection is in each subsistent (which I like better than subsistence, as more expressive of the concrete). a1731 J. Hurrion Scriptural Doctr. of Holy Spirit (1734) 207 A divine person is one single subsistent in the Godhead. a1802 T. Bell View Covenants Wks. & Grace (1814) 434 The Father is a person, a subsistent in the Godhead. 1981 R. Christophersen tr. L. O. Nielson Theol. & Philos. 20th Cent. 162 The question might be raised whether this talk of three subsistents and not of one subsistent has any basis in the actual distinction. 3. gen. A being or thing that subsists or exists by itself. Now chiefly in philosophical contexts. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > existence > substantiality or concreteness > [noun] > substantiality or subsistence > that which has substantial existence substance1340 substant1597 substantiality1603 subsistence1605 subsistencya1628 existency1651 subsistent1656 substander1662 1656 T. Stanley Hist. Philos. II. viii. 28 The place of significats is divided into phantasies, and subsistents on phantasie, dicibles, axioms, &c. 1694 R. Burthogge Ess. Reason 244 It becomes a Suppositum or Subsistent by it self. 1789 T. Taylor Hist. Restoration Platonic Theol. in tr. Proclus Philos. & Math. Comm. II. 244 Either nothing is self-subsistent; or the good itself is such; or things which are the first subsistents from the good. 1884 tr. A. Rosmini Psychol. (1886) II. iv. vi. 360 The possibility of the subsistence of many individuals, many ones, many Egos, many subsistents. 1906 Athenæum 17 July 204/1 These primary facts fall into three orders: the orders of physical and psychical existents, and objects of thought (such as relations, numbers, &c.), which may be called objective subsistents. 1996 Noûs 30 457 God could have made another world, and in so doing he would have caused to exist subsistents other than any that actually exist. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.a1530
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