Hypertext Webster Gateway: "existed"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Exist \Ex*ist"\, v. i. [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 water, nor fishes on land.

Syn: See {Be}.


Additional Hypertext Webster Gateway Lookup

Enter word here:
Exact Approx


dict.stokkie.net
Gateway by dict@stokkie.net
stock only wrote the gateway and does not have any control over the contents; see the Webster Gateway FAQ, and also the Back-end/database links and credits.