EXISTED
Verb
existed
simple past tense and past participle of exist
Source: Wiktionary
EXIST
Ex*ist", v. i. [imp. & p. p. Existed; p. pr. & vb. n. Existing.]
Etym: [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 water, nor fishes on land.
Syn.
– See Be.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition