Definify.com
Webster 1913 Edition
Exist
Ex-ist′
,Verb.
I.
[
imp. & p. p.
Existed
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Existing
.] [L.
existere
, exsistere
, to step out or forth, emerge, appear, exist; ex
out + sistere
to cause to stand, to set, put, place, stand still, fr. stare
to stand: cf. F. exister
. See Stand
.] 1.
To be as a fact and not as a mode; to have an actual or real being, whether material or spiritual.
Who now, alas! no more is missed
Than if he never did
Than if he never did
exist
. Swift.
To conceive the world . . . to have
existed
from eternity. South.
2.
To be manifest in any manner; to continue to be;
as, great evils
. existed
in his reign
Syn. – See
Be
. Webster 1828 Edition
Exist
EXIST'
,Verb.
I.
1.
To be; to have an essence or real being; applicable to matter or body, and to spiritual substances. A supreme being and first cause of all other beings must have existed from eternity, for no being can have created himself.2.
To live; to have life or animation. Men cannot exist in water, nor fishes on land.3.
To remain; to endure; to continue in being. How long shall national enmities exist?Definition 2024
exist
exist
English
Verb
exist (third-person singular simple present exists, present participle existing, simple past and past participle existed)
- to be; have existence; have being or reality
- 2012, The Unicode Consortium, The Unicode Standard: Version 6.1 – Core Specification, ISBN 978-1-936213-02-3, page 12:
- Various relationships may exist between character and glyph: […]
- 2012, The Unicode Consortium, The Unicode Standard: Version 6.1 – Core Specification, ISBN 978-1-936213-02-3, page 19:
- […] , regardless of whether those characters also existed in other character encoding standards.
- 2012, The Unicode Consortium, The Unicode Standard: Version 6.1 – Core Specification, ISBN 978-1-936213-02-3, page 55:
- […] , which will be treated either as an update of the existing character encoding or as a completely new character encoding.
- 2012, The Unicode Consortium, The Unicode Standard: Version 6.1 – Core Specification, ISBN 978-1-936213-02-3, page 12:
Synonyms
Derived terms
Derived terms
Related terms
Related terms
Translations
to be
|
|
External links
- exist in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- exist in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
Anagrams
Romanian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [eɡˈzist]
Verb
exist
- first-person singular present tense form of exista. I exist
- first-person singular subjunctive form of exista.