a. [f. late L. subsistentia SUBSISTENCE + -AL.] Pertaining to subsistence, esp. to the divine subsistence or hypostasis.
1620. T. Granger, Div. Logike, 310. His hypostaticall, or subsistentiall name.
1664. Baxter, Divine Life, I. vii. 50. Having spoken of the effects of the Attributes of Gods Essence as such, we must next speak of the Effects of his three great Attributes which some call Subsistential, that is, his Omnipotency, Vnderstanding and Will; or his Infinite Power, Wisdom and Goodness.
1830. Coleridge, in Lit. Rem. (1838), III. 2. The distinctities in the pleroma are the eternal ideas, the subsistential truths.
