substantiate (subs tans hi at)

t.; pret. and pp. substantiated, ppr. substantiating. [ It. sustan ziare, sostanziare = Sp. Pg. substanciar ), The accidental of any act is said to be whatever advenes to the act itself already substantiated . Ayliffe , Parergon. 2. To establish by proof or competent evidence; verify; make good: as, to substantiate a charge or an allegation; to substantiate a declaration. Observation is in turn wanted to direct and substantiate the course of experiment. Cole ridge. 3. To present as having substance; body forth. Every man feels for himself, and knows how he is affected by particular qualities in the persons he admires, the impre ions of which are too minute and delicate to be substantiated in language. Boswell, Johnson, I. 129. As many thoughts in succe ion substantiate themselves, we shall by and by stand in a new world of our own creation. Emerson, Friendship.