4. Having good substance; strong; stout; solid; firm; as, substantial
cloth; a substantial fence or wall.
5. Possessed of goods or an estate; moderately wealthy; responsible;
as, a substantial freeholder. "Substantial yeomen and burghers." Sir W.
Scott.
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Sub*stan`ti*al"i*ty (?), n. The quality or state of being substantial;
corporiety; materiality.
The soul is a stranger to such gross substantiality.
Glanvill.
Sub*stan"tial*ize (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Substantialized (?); p. pr.
& vb. n. Substantializing (?).] To make substantial.
Sub*stan"tial*ly, adv. In a substantial manner; in substance;
essentially.
In him all his Father shone, Substantially expressed.
Milton.
The laws of this religion would make men, if they would truly
observe them, substantially religious toward God, chastle, and
temperate.
Tillotson.
Sub*stan"tial*ness, n. The quality or state of being substantial; as,
the substantialness of a wall or column.
Sub*stan"tials (?), n. pl. Essential parts. Ayliffe.
Sub*stan"ti*ate (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Substantiated (?); p. pr. &
vb. n. Substantiating.] 1. To make to exist; to make real. Ayliffe.
2. To establish the existence or truth of by proof or competent
evidence; to verify; as, to substantiate a charge or allegation; to
substantiate a declaration.
Observation is, in turn, wanted to direct and substantiate the
course of experiment.
Coleridge.
Sub*stan`ti*a"tion (?), n. The act of substantiating or proving;
evidence; proof.
Sub`stan*ti"val (?), a. Of or pertaining to a substantive; of the
nature of substantive. -- Sub`stan*ti"val*ly, adv.
Sub"stan*tive (?), a. [L. substantivus: cf. F. substantif.] 1.
Betokening or expressing existence; as, the substantive verb, that is,
the verb to be.