1578 J. Banister Hist. Man i. f. 32^v These bones..seuereth from an other till they haue left a voyde, and empty corner, for the subsistyng of Penis, and the Testicles.

1597 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie v. lii. 109 By taking only the nature of man he still continueth one person, and changeth but the maner of his subsisting.

1603 in F. Moryson Itinerary (1617) ii. 276 The danger of his [sc. Tyrone's] subsisting as he doth, is..to maintaine still a loose head of Rebellion.

1642 H. Ainsworth Orthodox Found. Relig. 13 There are three manner of subsistings in God, and there can be neither more nor lesse, unlesse we will deny God.

1710 Locke's Ess. Humane Understanding (ed. 6) I. ii. xxi. 253 Your Lordship has the Idea of subsisting by it self.

1867 Jrnl. Speculative Philos. 1 202/1 We do not really see the subsisting of a product, but only the continual process of being reproduced.

1978 J. D. M. Derrett Ess. Class. & Mod. Hindu Law 115 The subsisting of a marriage is certainly a matter of rights in re.

2004 K. R. Peterson tr. F. W. J. Schelling First Outl. Syst. Philos. Nature 205 We do not really see the subsisting of a product, but only the continual process of it being reproduced.

1698 E. D'Auvergne Hist. Campagne Flanders 1697 45 As for the Subsisting of their Armies about Thilt, Rousselar and Torhout,..no Forrage could be expected here for the Maintenance of such Armies.

1719 D. Defoe Life Robinson Crusoe 73 I had a tollerable View of subsisting without any Want as long as I liv'd.

1781 N. Greene Let. 11 Nov. in Papers (1997) IX. 559 The cheapest and best way of subsisting is upon live stock.

1886 Docs. 110th Legislature New Jersey 1 25 An experiment was made in that the subsisting of the men was given out by contract to a responsible party.

1942 J. E. Shaw Local Govt. 9 Freeholders were authorised to levy an assessment to defray the cost of apprehending criminals, and of the subsisting of them in prison until prosecution.

1865 L. Playfair Food of Man 8 In looking for a purely subsisting diet, we naturally turn to the experience of hospitals having convalescent patients unable still to take exercise.

1902 Granite Monthly 32 72/2 There is no season of the year that denies him, at least, a subsisting diet.

1969 Oakland (Calif.) Tribune 4 Dec. k12 Some families could get less money under the new welfare setup than they would need to provide a minimum, subsisting diet.

1597 Bp. J. King Lect. Ionas xvi. 214 These [Marriners] pray to Iehovah, the true subsisting God.

1615 T. Adams Blacke Devill 10 The Sadduces & Atheists..shall finde, that there are spirites created for vengeance..; essentiall and subsisting natures.

1674 J. Owen Disc. Holy Spirit i. iii. 54 He [sc. the Holy Ghost] was represented by a subsisting Substance.

a1720 B. Bayly On Immateriality of Soul 13 in J. Toland Coll. Pieces (1726) II. Must not this [sc. the power of thought] therefore be some real subsisting thing, different from the brain or the parts of it, that it moves or directs?

1832 S. T. Bloomfield Greek Test. I. 321/1 All the best informed inquirers are agreed..that it [sc. the term Logos, or Word] designates a real subsisting Being, and not an attribute, as Wisdom, or Reason.

1923 H. H. Cunynghame Short Talks Philos. 17 If we treat ‘being’ as not a mere quality of things, but as a subsisting Idea, we must call it ‘substance’.

2006 L. Dewan Form & Being ii. 29 As a subsisting thing, not a mere harmony, its ceasing to be must be strictly its own.

1611 in Lawes Colony Virginea Britannia (1612) 60 The Serjeant Major, or the Captaine of the watch, shall conduct them to the place of the subsisting businesse.

1738 H. Home Petition E. Ramsay to Lords Council & Session 6 There are no bygone Annualrents due upon an Apprising, nor in Truth any subsisting Debt to carry Interest.

1765 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. I. i. viii. 276 Where there is a subsisting lease, of which there are twenty years still to come.

1795 W. Paley View Evidences Christianity (ed. 3) II. iii. ii. 302 It appears in the Christian records..as being the subsisting opinion of the age and country in which his ministry was exercised.

1818 W. Cruise Digest Laws Eng. Real Prop. (ed. 2) II. 325 This not being a remainder created by that deed, but a conveyance of the then subsisting reversion or remainder expectant on the death of M.

1859 J. S. Mill On Liberty i. 20 The still subsisting habit of looking on the government as representing an opposite interest to the public.

1920 Pacific Reporter 188 760/2 The appellant has a valid subsisting lease which does not expire until February 4, 1923.

1999 Mondaq Business Briefing (Nexis) 19 Feb. Liquidation of a company, whether voluntary or compulsory, does not automatically terminate subsisting contracts.

1613 G. Wither Abuses Stript i. sig. K2^v She hath no power to see, The better things that more subsisting be.

a1679 J. Brown Life of Faith (1824) I. vii. 138 Not only would the faith of this help to a subsisting life but..to a life of joy.

1747 J. Smith Chronicon Rusticum-commerciale I. lxvii. 348 Whatever Effects this Alteration was judged to have produced, at first, in the Price of Flesh and lean Cattle, I cannot think it to have been a subsisting Difference.

1921 Solicitors' Jrnl. 66 782 A further matter which is to my mind a crying and subsisting evil has never seemed seriously to engage the attention of legislators.

2007 H. A. Onwubiko Survive Fittest xvi. 232 Mariam's only subsisting memory of her youth and village while in Kano was the Ekpe festival.

a1641 R. Montagu Acts & Monuments (1642) 72 But that Fabrick, whereon subsistingly doth it rely?

?1715 M. Davies Present & Primitive State Arianism 38 The Co-supreme, all-omnipotent Second divine Person of the Co-eternal Trinity of the One coessential subsistingly Trinify'd Godhead.

1929 Columbia Law Rev. 29 658 The obligation as to insurance is to provide a subsistingly valid policy.

1991 J. Bowker Meanings of Death (1996) vi. 177 It is perfectly sensible to regard the aggregation in the past or in the future as a real, identifiable person, without inferring a substantial (subsistingly permanent) self, linking the two.