Exist /(?)/

Ex·ist

Exist

v. i.

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.
    To conceive the world . . . to have existed from eternity.
  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.