SUBSIST'ENCY, n. Real being; as a chain of differing subsistencies. Not only the things had subsistence, but the very images were of some creatures existing.1. Competent provisions; means of supporting life. His viceroy could only propose to himself a comfortable subsistence out of the plunder of his province.2. That which supplies the means of living; as money, pay or wages.3. Inherence in something else, as the subsistence of qualities in bodies.
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