Exist

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·vi To be manifest in any manner; to continue to be; as, great evils existed in his reign.

II. Exist ·vi To be as a fact and not as a mode; to have an actual or real being, whether material or spiritual.

III. Exist ·vi To Live; to have life or the functions of vitality; as, men can not exist water, nor fishes on land.