substitutional

[Eng. substitution; -al.] Pertaining to or implying substitution; supplying the place of another. sub-sti-tū-tion-al-ly, adv. [English substitu tional; -ly.] In a substitutional manner; by way of substitution. sub-sti-tu-tion-ar-ý, adj. [Eng. substitution; -ary.] Pertaining to or making substitution; substitutional. sub-sti-tu-tive, adj . [Eng. substitut (e); -ive.] Making substitution; tending to afford or provide substitution; capable of being substituted. "These substitutive particles, which serve to supply the room of some sentence or complex part of it, are styled interjections."- Wilkins : Real Character , pt. iii., ch. ii. *sub-sti-tu-tõr-ý, a . [Eng. substitut ( e ); -ory .] Substitutional; capable of being substituted for another. "A few remarks on the proposed cultivation of tobacco as one of the substitutory crops for wheat, ."-London Echo . *sub-stract', v . t . [Formed from sub- =under, and traho to draw, on an erroneous supposed analogy with abstract (q. v.).] 1. To subtract. "Whatsoever time and attendance we bestow upon one thing, we must nece arily substract from another." Scott : Christian Life , pt. i., ch. iv. 2. To withdraw. "Substracting his gracious direction and a istance, he giveth them over to their own hearts' lusts."-Barrow: Sermons, vol. iii., ser. 16, *sub-străc-tion, subst . [SUBSTRACT.] Subtraction. (Now only in vulgar use.) "I cannot call this piece Tully's nor my own, being much altered not only by the change of the style, but by addition and substraction." - Denham. *sub-străc-tõr, s . [Eng. substract: -or.] One who subtracts; a subtracter; hence, a detractor, a slanderer. "They are scoundrels and substractors that say so of him." Shakesp .: Twelfth Night , i. 3. pine, pit, sire, sir, marine; gō, pot, IMG:content-0501.png:[blocks in formation] 1. Lit .: That which is laid or spread under; that which underlies something; spec if., a stratum of earth lying under another; subsoil. 12. Figur .: That which underlies anything; as, there is a substratum of truth in the statement. II. Philos.: The same as SUBSTANCE, II. 2. "That which manifests its qualities-in other words, that in which the appearing causes inhere, that to which they belong-is called their subject, or substance, or sub stratum."- Hamilton : Metaphysics (ed. Mansel), i. 137. *sub-strūct', v. t . [SUBSTRUCTION.] To build beneath; to lay as the foundation of.