Exist — Defs

01 v. i. To be as a fact and not as a mode; to have an actual or real being, whether material or spiritual.

imp. & p. p. Existed; p. pr. & vb. n. Existing

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.