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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Exist \Ex*ist"\, verb (used without an object) [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 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.
3. To live; to have life or the functions of vitality; as, men can not exist in water, nor fishes on land.
Syn: See {Be}.
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