subsistence

noun5

1. •
   The act of maintaining oneself at a minimum level.
2. •
   Something (food, water, money, etc.) that is required to stay alive.

   • In the general course of human nature, a power over a man's subsistence amounts to a power over his will. — 1788
3. •
   Real being; existence.

   • the human nature loseth its proper subsistence , and is assumed into the subsistence of the divine nature — 1686
4. •
   Inherency.

   • the subsistence of qualities in bodies
5. •
   Embodiment or personification or hypostasis of an underlying principle or quality.