- (v.i.) To live; to have life or the functions of vitality; as, men can not exist water, nor fishes on land.
- (v.i.) To be manifest in any manner; to continue to be; as, great evils existed in his reign.
- (v.i.) To be as a fact and not as a mode; to have an actual or real being, whether material or spiritual.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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