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Coexist   /kˌoʊəgzˈɪst/   Listen
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Coexist  v. i.  (past & past part. coexisted; pres. part. coexisting)  To exist at the same time; sometimes followed by with. "Of substances no one has any clear idea, farther than of certain simple ideas coexisting together." "So much purity and integrity... coexisting with so much decay and so many infirmities."






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... eloquently on it have dwelt almost exclusively on its higher forms, and have defined humor in general as the sympathetic presentation of incongruous elements in human nature and life—a definition which only applies to its later development. A great deal of humor may coexist with a great deal of barbarism, as we see in the Middle Ages; but the strongest flavor of the humor in such cases will come, not from sympathy, but more probably from triumphant egoism or intolerance; ...
— The Essays of "George Eliot" - Complete • George Eliot

... becomes reddish purple, and that of the nostrils may in addition show hemorrhagic spots on its surface. The lymphatic glands in this region are also swollen and infiltrated with bloody serum. The salivary glands are pale and dry. The pectoral type, though at times existing alone, may coexist with the cutaneous form. The inflammatory edema of the mouth extends to the mucous membrane of the trachea and bronchi, producing an extensive thickening and a yellowish infiltration. The lung shows interstitial thickening ...
— Special Report on Diseases of Cattle • U.S. Department of Agriculture

... man can see without explanation that evil with its falsity and good with its truth cannot exist in man's interiors at the same time. For evil is the opposite of good and good the opposite of evil; two opposites cannot coexist. Implanted in all evil, moreover, is a hatred for good, and implanted in all good the love of protecting itself against evil and removing it from itself. Consequently one cannot be where the other ...
— Angelic Wisdom about Divine Providence • Emanuel Swedenborg

... of changing fancies and serve as receptacles in which the most diverse notions are collected and stored. Nearly all philosophy and superstition finds its place in Hinduism by being connected with one or both of them. The two worships are not characteristic of different periods: they coexist when they first become known to us as they do at the present day and in essential doctrines they are much alike. We have no name for this curious double theism in which each party describes its own deity as the supreme ...
— Hinduism And Buddhism, Volume II. (of 3) - An Historical Sketch • Charles Eliot

... showing that ammonium cyanate can become urea by an internal arrangement of its atoms, without gaining or losing in weight, Whler furnished one of the first and best examples of isomerism, which helped to demolish the old view that equality of composition could not coexist in two bodies, A and B, with differences in their respective physical and chemical properties. Two years later, in 1830, Whler published, jointly with Liebig, the results of a research on cyanic and cyanuric acid and on urea. Berzelius, in his report to the Swedish Academy of Sciences, ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 362, December 9, 1882 • Various


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