[f. CO- + EXISTENCE; cf. F. coexistence.] Existence together or in conjunction.

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1646.  Sir T. Browne, Pseud. Ep., VII. iv. 345. A coexistence with that which is internally presented unto the understanding.

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1754.  Edwards, Freed. Will, II. § 7. 68. Choice may be immediately after a State of Indifference, but has no Coexistence with it.

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1822.  De Quincey, Confess. (1862), 165. In the relation to each other … of succession and not of co-existence.

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1846.  Mill, Logic (ed. 4), III. v. § 8. The coexistences of phenomena can in no case be universal, unless the coexistences of the primeval causes … can be reduced to an universal law.

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