Definition of "subsisting" [subsisting]

• Present participle of subsist. (verb)

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• "For there was a syllo - gism, the terms subsisting, as well in this, as ia. that way."
• "I recall subsisting on Doritos between the years 1985 - 1997."
• "The Indians are described as subsisting by farming, fishing, hunting, lumbering, and labouring, with good dwellings and stock well cared for; very industrious and of good morals, excepting a few intemperates."