v. [f. CO- + EXIST; cf. F. coexister.] intr. To exist together or in conjunction; to exist at the same time, in the same place, etc., with (rarely † to, † unto) another.
1677. Hale, Prim. Orig. Man., I. iv. 109. The three Stars that coexist in Heavenly Constellations are a multitude of stars. Ibid., 107. They [Generations of Mankind] never coexist, but are successive.
1690. Locke, Hum. Und., III. iii. § 9. 271 (J.). For our Ideas of the Species of Substances, being, as I have shewed, nothing but certain Collections of simple Ideas united in one Subject, and so co-existing together.
1809–10. Coleridge, Friend (1865), 22. No real greatness can coexist with deceit.
