Strength and magnitude are qualities which impress the imagination
in a powerful and substantive manner.
Hazlitt.
4. Pertaining to, or constituting, the essential part or principles;
as, the law substantive.
Noun substantive (Gram.), a noun which designates an object, material
or immaterial; a substantive. -- Substantive color, one which
communicates its color without the aid of a mordant or base; -- opposed
to adjective color.
Sub"stan*tive, n. [Cf. F. substantif.] (Gram.) A noun or name; the part
of speech which designates something that exists, or some object of
thought, either material or immaterial; as, the words man, horse, city,
goodness, excellence, are substantives.
Sub"stan*tive, v. t. To substantivize. [R.] Cudworth.
Sub"stan*tive*ly, adv. 1. In a substantive manner; in substance;
essentially.
2. (Gram.) As a substantive, name, or noun; as, an adjective may be
used substantively.
Sub"stan*tive*ness, n. The quality or state of being substantive.
Sub"stan*tiv*ize (?), v. t. To convert into a substantive; as, to
substantivize an adjective. Fitzed. Hall.
Sub"stile` (?), n. (Dialing) See Substyle.
Sub*stit"u*ent (?), n. [L. substituens, p. pr. See Substitute.] (Chem.)
Any atom, group, or radical substituted for another, or entering a
molecule in place of some other part which is removed.
Sub"stit"ute (?), n. [L. substitutus, p. p. of substituere to put
under, put in the place of; sub under + statuere to put, place: cf. F.
substitut. See Statute.] One who, or that which, is substituted or put
in the place of another; one who acts for another; that which stands in
lieu of something else; specifically (Mil.), a person who enlists for
military service in the place of a conscript or drafted man.
Hast thou not made me here thy substitute?
Milton.
Ladies [in Shakespeare's age] . . . wore masks as the sole
substitute known to our ancestors for the modern parasol.
De Quincey.
Sub"stit"ute (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Substituted (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Substituting (?).] [See Substitute, n.] To put in the place of another
person or thing; to exchange.
Some few verses are inserted or substituted in the room of others.
Congreve.
Sub"stit"uted (?), a. 1. Exchanged; put in the place of another.
2. (Chem.) Containing substitutions or replacements; having been
subjected to the process of substitution, or having some of its parts
replaced; as, alcohol is a substituted water; methyl amine is a
substituted ammonia.
Substituted executor (Law), an executor appointed to act in place of
one removed or resigned.
Sub`sti*tu"tion (?), n. [L. substitutio: cf. F. substitution.] 1. The
act of substituting or putting one person or thing in the place of
another; as, the substitution of an agent, attorney, or representative
to act for one in his absense; the substitution of bank notes for gold
and silver as a circulating medium.