Crossword clues for existed
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Exist \Ex*ist"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Existed; p. pr. & vb. n. Existing.] [L. existere, exsistere, to step out or forth, emerge, appear, exist; ex out + sistere to cause to stand, to set, put, place, stand still, fr. stare to stand: cf. F. exister. See Stand.]
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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.
--Swift.To conceive the world . . . to have existed from eternity.
--South. To be manifest in any manner; to continue to be; as, great evils existed in his reign.
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To live; to have life or the functions of vitality; as, men can not exist in water, nor fishes on land.
Syn: See Be.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: exist)
Usage examples of "existed".
I gave him an expurgated edition of Harlan's recovery from the drug, intimating that'suspicions had existed in certain minds' over the cause of Harlan's unexpected collapse.
Widespread television existed and recording tapes but nothing approximating typewriters or printing presses.
Ken shrugged his shoulders and, for a few moments, a bond existed between the two males of the house drawn together against the vapors of their women.
They knew the Hrrubans existed and no matter how keenly they wished to remain on Doona, their conditioning on Co-Habitation was too strong.
By the time someone did notice the beacon, an uneasy truce existed between the colonists holding hostages and the remaining crews aboard the two spaceships.
Mutual coexistence already existed on Rrala -- between Hrriss and Todd.
In the back of his mind, Ken swore that whatever government existed on Rrala, it would stay small enough to be manageable.
Admiral Landreau was the epitome of regret and sorrow when he informed the Amalgamated Worlds Congress of the dreadful situation which existed on Doona when so much was at stake in the renewal of the Treaty.
Everyone stared in turn at the screens and the forward port, as if to make certain what they saw in the screen existed in real space.
To be sure, the larger species might have existed on Ireta when the expedition had first landed.
I can't imagine that the heavyworlders could have existed long on this place without some sort of a stimulant.
One of the regulations which had not existed in her time was registration qualification: enrolment for certain classes was restricted to those who qualified through the examinations.
He could not believe that they existed just on the other side of the veil which he himself never crossed.
The sumptuous interiors of ‘gracious homes’ as they were called, homes that existed merely to show off their owners' wealth.
That simply wasn't done in academic circles, a world in which only facts and speculations existed, and not sordid details of private lives.