EXIST

exist. Exist, v.i. to be, have a being, live, remain, stay

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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. 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. 2. To be manifest in any manner; to continue to be; as, great evils existed in his reign.
3. 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.