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exist Definition

ex·ist (eg zist′, ig-)

intransitive verb

  1. to have reality or actual being; be
  2. to occur or be present the qualities that exist in a person
  3. to continue being; live the refugees barely exist

Etymology: Fr exister < L existere, exsistere, to come forth, stand forth < ex-, out + sistere, to cause to stand, set, place, caus. of stare, stand

exist Synonyms

exist

v.

  1. To have being

    breathe, live, survive; see be 1.

  2. To carry on life

    be alive, endure, go on; see endure 1, subsist.

exist Usage Examples

Object

  • legislation: We also hope the Government will proceed with a Regulatory Reform ( Fire Safety ) Order to overhaul and consolidate existing fragmented legislation.
  • customer: They will also cover existing customers where flood defenses will be completed within five years.
  • today: All through intelligence circles people had chosen sides and the two UFO factions that exist today were born.
  • infrastructure: Maximizing the use of existing radio infrastructure has to be in the public interest.
  • building: Offer the same system for refurbishment of existing buildings.
  • arrangement: Aims The purpose of this body would be to strengthen existing arrangements for the handling of food safety matters.

Adjective complement

  • aerial: If you live in an area without a digital signal, you may need to upgrade your existing aerial.

Used with why or when

  • which: There is no state of being in which you could exist which would be outside the eternal love of Christ.
  • that: An interesting if brief history of the real life Scorpion King, presuming such a man existed that is.
  • where: ECUMENICAL COOPERATION Several networks exist where information and experience can be shared.
  • when: The wallpaper and curtains reproduce those which existed when the room was occupied by the Duchess of Kent and Princess Victoria.

Infinitive complement

  • promote: GHT exists to promote the best quality of life for people living with HIV in the North West.
  • protect: MRECs exist primarily to protect research subjects from harm, to facilitate good quality research and to protect researchers.
  • help: More than 50 organizations exist to help the criminal but only a handful struggle to help the victims.
  • ensure: NCVO believes that sufficient regulation already exists to ensure that organizations fundraise in ways that are lawful.

Preposition: in

  • isolation: Promotion is crucial: a project cannot exist in isolation but depends on the participation of many other parties.
  • vacuum: Oxford University no longer exists in an academic vacuum, safe from the scrutiny of the outside world.
  • realm: A ghost or spirit is the life force of someone who has died, but not ceased to exist in this realm.
  • imagination: Others see them as purely fantastical creatures existing only in the imaginations and storybooks of the young.

Preposition: for

  • compatibility: Note: This method exists for backward binary compatibility with earlier versions of the Swing library.
exist Quotes

Innovationmost ofthetime issimply taking A,B,C and D, which already exist, and putting them together in a form called E.

—Schiller, Friedrich

Les faits ne sont rien, ils n'existent pas, il ne subsiste de nous que des Ide¤  es. Deeds are nothing. They do not exist.Only our ideas survive.

—Balzac, Honore¤   de

The echo began in some indescribable way to undermine her hold on life.Coming at a moment when she chanced to be fatigued, it had managed to murmur, 'Pathos, piety, courageöthey exist, but are identical, and so is filth. Everything exists, nothing has value.'

—Forster, E(dward) M(organ)

Es gibt nur einen Irrtum, und es ist der, dass wir dasind, um glu«  cklich zu sein. There is only one inborn error, and that is the notion that we exist in order to be happy.

—Schopenhauer, Arthur

Agnoscam fieri non posse ut existam talis naturae qualis sum, nempe ideam Dei in me habens, nisi revera Deus etiam existeret, Deus, inquam, ille idem cujus idea in me est. I could not possibly exist with the nature I actually have, that is, one endowed with the idea of God, unless there really is a God; the very God, I mean, of whom I have an idea.

—Descartes, Rene¤

Facts do not cease to exist because theyare ignored.

—Huxley, Aldous Leonard

I repeat†that all power is a trustöthat we are accountable for its exerciseöthat, from the people, and for the people, all springs, and all must exist.

—Disraeli, Benjamin, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield

It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.

—DeVries, Peter

If evil does not exist, what isgoing to happen to literature?

—Pritchett, Sir V(ictor) S(awdon)

Nothing exists until or unless it is observed. An artist is making something exist by observing it.

—Burroughs,William S(eward)

Quicquid est, in Deo est, et nihil sine Deo esse necque concipi potest. Whatever is, is in God, and nothing can exist or be conceived without God.

—Spinoza, Baruch also known as Benedict de Spinoza

I believe in the Church, one Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church; and nowhere does it exist.

—Temple,William

My culture and my language have the right to exist, and no one has the authority to dismiss that.

—Kelman,James

A man said to the universe: 'Sir, I exist!' 'However,'replied the universe, 'The fact has not created in me A sense of obligation.'

—Crane, Stephen

We were obsessed by the feeling that this was the supreme cause of our time. The cause of poets and of writers.The cause of freedom. And that unlessthe cause of anti-Fascism was won, unless Fascism was defeated, we would be unable to exist as writers.

—Spender, Sir Stephen Harold