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Oblique; sloping. -- Slant"ing*ly, adv.

Relating to spodomancy, or divination by means of ashes. C. Kingsley.

Belonging to substance; actually existing; real; as, substantial life. Milton. If this atheist would have his chance to be real and substantial agent, he is more stupid than the vulgar. Bentley.

The quality or state of being substantial; corporiety; materiality. The soul is a stranger to such gross substantiality. Glanvill.

To make substantial.

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.

The quality or state of being substantial; as, the substantialness of a wall or column.

Essential parts. Ayliffe.

stablish 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.

The act of substantiating or proving; evidence; proof.

Of or pertaining to a substantive; of the nature of substantive. -- Sub`stan*ti"val*ly, adv.

Betokening or expressing existence; as, the substantive verb, that is, the verb to be.

In a substantive manner; in substance; essentially.

The quality or state of being substantive.

To convert into a substantive; as, to substantivize an adjective. Fitzed. Hall.

A salt of sulphantimonic acid.

Of, pertaining to, or designating, a hypothetical sulphacid of antimony (called also thioantimonic acid) analogous to sulpharsenic acid.

Of, pertaining to, or designating, a hypothetical sulphacid of antimony (called also thioantimonious acid) analogous to sulpharsenious acid.

A salt of sulphantimonious acid.

More than substantial; spiritual. "The heavenly supersubstantial bread." Jer. Taylor.