Subsistence: Definition and part of speech

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Subsistence

  1. n. Same as Hypostasis, 2.
  2. n. Real being; existence.
  3. n. Inherency; as, the subsistence of qualities in bodies.
  4. n. That which furnishes support to animal life; means of support; provisions, or that which produces provisions; livelihood; as, a meager subsistence.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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