exist, survive, live, subsist
(verb) support oneself; “he could barely exist on such a low wage”; “Can you live on $2000 a month in New York City?”; “Many people in the world have to subsist on $1 a day”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
subsist (third-person singular simple present subsists, present participle subsisting, simple past and past participle subsisted)
To survive on a minimum of resources.
(mostly, philosophy) To have ontological reality; to exist.
To retain a certain state; to continue.
Source: Wiktionary
Sub*sist", v. i. [imp. & p. p. Subsisted; p. pr. & vb. n. Subsisting.] Etym: [L. subsistere to stand still, stay, remain alive; sub under + sistere to stand, to cause to stand, from stare to stand: cf. F. subsister. See Stand.]
1. To be; to have existence; to inhere. And makes what happiness we justly call, Subsist not in the good of one, but all. Pope.
2. To continue; to retain a certain state. Firm we subsist, yet possible to swerve. Milton.
3. To be maintained with food and clothing; to be supported; to live. Milton. To subsist on other men's charity. Atterbury.
Sub*sist", v. t.
Definition: To support with provisions; to feed; to maintain; as, to subsist one's family. He laid waste the adjacent country in order to render it more difficult for the enemy to subsist their army. Robertson.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
4 April 2025
(verb) kill by cutting the head off with a guillotine; “The French guillotined many Vietnamese while they occupied the country”
The Boston Tea Party helped popularize coffee in America. The hefty tea tax imposed on the colonies in 1773 resulted in America switching from tea to coffee. In the lead up to the Revolutionary War, it became patriotic to sip java instead of tea. The Civil War made the drink more pervasive. Coffee helped energize tired troops, and drinking it became an expression of freedom.
