Word Meanings - SUBSISTENCY - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Subsistence.
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- SUBSISTENCE
See HOOKER (more info) 1. Real being; existence. Not only the things had subsistence, but the very images were of some creatures existing. Stillingfleet. 2. Inherency; as, the subsistence of qualities in - SUBSISTENCE DEPARTMENT
A staff department of the United States army charged, under the supervision of the Chief of Staff, with the purchasing and issuing to the army of such supplies as make up the ration. It also supplies, for authorized sales, certain articles of food