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

To subtle. Shak.

To change into another substance. [R.] The spider love which transubstantiates all, And can convert manna to gall. Donne.

A change into another substance.

One who maintains the doctrine of transubstantiation. Barrow.

Lacking in matter or substance; visionary; chimerical.

To make unsubstantial. [R.]

A divesting of substantiality.

In process of; in the act of; into; to; -- used with verbal substantives in -ing which begin with a consonant. This is a shortened form of the preposition an (which was used before the vowel sound); as in a hunting, a building, a begging. "Jacob, when he was a dying" Heb. xi. 21. "We'll a birding together." " It was a…

The simplest rudiments of any subject; as, the A B C of finance. A B C book, a primer. Shak.

A small tile of glass, marble, or other substance, of various colors, used in making ornamental patterns in mosaic pavements. Fairholt.

To endure; to sustain; to submit to. [Thou] shalt abide her judgment on it. Tennyson.

A substance resembling mannite, found in the needles of the common silver fir of Europe (Abies pectinata). Eng. Cyc.

The substitution of one root vowel for another, thus indicating a corresponding modification of use or meaning; vowel permutation; as, get, gat, got; sing, song; hang, hung. Earle.

The substance rubbed off. Berkeley.

Having sudden transitions from one subject to another; unconnected. The abrupt style, which hath many breaches. B. Jonson.

or such ties as it would be sin or guilt to violate; to pronounce free; as, to absolve a subject from his allegiance; to absolve an offender, which amounts to an acquittal and remission of his punishment. Halifax was absolved by a majority of fourteen. Macaulay.

n charcoal absorbs gases. So heat, light, and electricity are absorbed or taken up in the substances into which they pass. Nichol. p. 8

Any substance which absorbs and neutralizes acid fluid in the stomach and bowels, as magnesia, chalk, etc.; also a substance e. g., iodine) which acts on the absorbent vessels so as to reduce enlarged and indurated parts.

A substance used in cleansing; a detergent; as, soap is an abstergent.