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Essential parts. Ayliffe.

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.

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.

The part of the axis contained between the ordinate and tangent drawn to the same point in a curve.

Produced by the wind. [Obs.]

Reserved. [R.]

A salt of sulphostannic acid.

Of, pertaining to, or designating, a sulphacid of tin (more exactly called metasulphostannic acid), which is obtained as a dark brown amorphous substance, H

lly, the ruler of the Turks; the Padishah, or Grand Seignior; -- officially so called. Sultan flower. (Bot.) See Sweet sultan, under Sweet.

Having a deep red color.

The wife of a sultan; a sultaness.

The rule or dominion of a sultan; sultanship.

A sultana.

Pertaining to a sultan.

The dominions of a sultan. Bacon.