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coëxist

coëxist verb: dated spelling of coexist.

Verb

coëxist (third-person singular simple present coëxists, present participle coëxisting, simple past and past participle coëxisted)

  1. Dated spelling of coexist.
    • Bowne, Metaphysics, 106 —“ In the system, the complete ground of an event never lies in any one thing, but only in a complex of things. If a single thing were the sufficient ground of an effect, the effect would coëxist with the thing, and all effects would be instantaneously given. Hence all...1886, Augustus Hopkins Strong, Systematic Theology: A Compendium and Commonplace-book Designed for the Use of Theological Students, page 437 (Press of E.R. Andrews)
    • Location of coëxisting coacervates and equilibrium liquid in the cells.1942, Proceedings of the section of sciences / Koninklijke Akademie van Wetenschappen, te Amsterdam, volume 45 : 2, page 781

Examples of coëxist in a sentence

  • If a single thing were the sufficient ground of an effect, the effect would coëxist with the thing, and all effects would be instantaneously given.1886, Augustus Hopkins Strong, Systematic Theology: A Compendium and Commonplace-book Designed for the Use of Theological Students, page...
  • It would seem that in reality these two can coëxist in a single work.2001, Richard Caron, Joscelyn Godwin, and Wouter J Hanegraaff, Esotérisme, gnoses & imaginaire symbolique: mélanges offerts à Antoine...

Forms of coëxist

third-person singular presentcoëxists
present participlecoëxisting
past participlecoëxisted
pastcoëxisted

Questions about coëxist

What does coëxist mean?
Coëxist means dated spelling of coexist.
How do you use coëxist in a sentence?
If a single thing were the sufficient ground of an effect, the effect would coëxist with the thing, and all effects would be instantaneously given.
What part of speech is coëxist?
Coëxist is a verb.
What is the past tense of coëxist?
The past tense of coëxist is coëxisted.

Words near coëxist in the dictionary

  1. coëfficient
  2. coëfficients
  3. coërcion
  4. coërcions
  5. coëval
  6. coëxist
  7. coëxisted
  8. coëxisting
  9. coëxists
  10. Coín
  11. coïncidence

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