† subsister, † subsistership Obs.
? Errors for, or jocular alterations of, subsizar, -sizarship.
| 1589 [? Nashe] Almond for Parrat Wks. 1905 III. 366, I am to tel you how laudibly he behaued himselfe in Peter⁓house, during the time of his subsistership. 1592 Chettle Kind-harts Dr. (1841) 45 You that was wont, like a subsister, in a gown of rugge, rent on the left shoulder, to sit singing the counter-tenor by the cage in Southwarke. |