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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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135 words match “SUBSTANT”

Substantial; firm. [R.] "[The glacier's] substant ice." The Century.

SUBSTANTIAL a. 5 definitions

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.

SUBSTANTIALITY n.

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

SUBSTANTIALIZE v.

To make substantial.

SUBSTANTIALLY 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.

SUBSTANTIALNESS n.

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

SUBSTANTIALS n.

Essential parts. Ayliffe.

SUBSTANTIATE v. 2 definitions

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.

SUBSTANTIATION n.

The act of substantiating or proving; evidence; proof.

SUBSTANTIVAL a.

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

SUBSTANTIVE a. 6 definitions

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

SUBSTANTIVELY adv. 2 definitions

In a substantive manner; in substance; essentially.

SUBSTANTIVENESS n.

The quality or state of being substantive.

SUBSTANTIVIZE v.

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

CONSUBSTANTIAL a.

e; having the same substance or essence; coessential. Christ Jesus . . . coeternal and consubstantial with the Father and with the Holy Ghost. Foxe.

CONSUBSTANTIALISM n.

The doctrine of consubstantiation.

CONSUBSTANTIALIST n.

One who believes in consubstantiation. Barrow.

CONSUBSTANTIALITY n.

cipation of the same nature; coexistence in the same substance. "His [the Son's] . . . consubstantiality with the Father." Hammend.

CONSUBSTANTIALLY adv.

In a consubstantial manner; with identity of substance or nature.

CONSUBSTANTIATE v. 3 definitions

nite, or to regard as united, in one common substance or nature. [R.] His soul must be consubstantiated with reason. Jer. Taylor.