having existence or being or actuality; " an attempt to refine the existent machinery to make it more efficient"; " much of the beluga caviar existing in the world is found in the Soviet Union and Iran"

existing in something specified; " depletion of the oxygen existing in the bloodstream"

presently existing; " the existing system"

of Exist

Having being or life; actual.

It seemed impossible, under existing law, to punish him, for his case did not seem to fall within the class of contempts for which it provided. – Personal Reminiscences of Early Days in California with Other Sketches; To Which Is Added the Story of His Attempted Assassination by a Former Associate on the Supreme Bench of the State by Stephen Field; George C. Gorham

I mean their actually existing thoughts and feelings. – The Subjection of Women by John Stuart Mill

I have asked many of the members this question, 'Do you think that the reports and letters which have been published respecting your Association, have been so written as to leave a correct impression of your real existing condition on the mind of the reader? – History of American Socialisms by John Humphrey Noyes

I imagine it is the highest existing palm in Italy, and am glad to have taken a likeness of it, ere it shall have been cut down like the rest of its fellows. – Old Calabria by Norman Douglas

From these considerations the truth of the proposition is evident, that the changes of state with men differ from those with women; since men from creation are forms of knowledge, intelligence and wisdom, and women are forms of the love of those principles as existing with men. – The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love by Emanuel Swedenborg

Yes, there seems a warm friendship existing between them, though the captain must be the older by several years. – Grandmother Elsie by Martha Finley

It would command far greater confidence if it were responsible to an Irish Parliament; but Irishmen are sensible enough to perceive that as long as the Union lasts, everyone is interested in making the existing system work smoothly and well. – The Framework of Home Rule by Erskine Childers

9656. Have you had experience as to the relations existing between proprietors of land and fish- merchants in Shetland? – Second Shetland Truck System Report by William Guthrie

I want to save the existing order. – One of Our Conquerors, Complete by George Meredith Last Updated: March 7, 2009

If the owner has imposed no terms on him, then he has the implied authority usually existing in such cases. – Putnam's Handy Law Book for the Layman by Albert Sidney Bolles

She did not seem to care about anything whatever except her own manner of existing – The Lion's Share by E. Arnold Bennett

When we learned the fact of such an impression existing in this country, we endeavored to correct it. – History and Ecclesiastical Relations of the Churches of the Presbyterial Order at Amoy, China by J. V. N. Talmage

" It is no reason at all for existing and you know you have been very wicked. – Humorous Ghost Stories by Dorothy Scarborough

As the order of things now existing has come into being, so it must one day perish. – The Roman Poets of the Republic by W. Y. Sellar

This was the existing Fort. – Toronto of Old by Henry Scadding

" I can't imagine, unless there is some sort of an arrangement existing between him and the Confederate authorities at New Orleans," replied Rodney. – Rodney The Partisan by Harry Castlemon

In the helpless misery existing in France at this time, the Church saw its opportunity. – A Short History of France by Mary Platt Parmele

The existing system was recognized as hopeless. – A Short History of English Liberalism by Walter Lyon Blease

I can tell you what it is, Corny; the existing power is always an important power since we all think more of the present time, than of the future. – Satanstoe by James Fenimore Cooper

It is certainly not always necessary that the whole existing difference should be pointed out. – Christology of the Old Testament: And a Commentary on the Messianic Predictions, v. 1 by Ernst Wilhelm Hengstenberg