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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.

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

The doctrine of consubstantiation.

One who believes in consubstantiation. Barrow.

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

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

Unsubstantial; not real or strong. "Insubstantial pageant." [R.] Shak.

Unsubstantiality; unreality. [R.]

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

Lacking in matter or substance; visionary; chimerical.

To make unsubstantial. [R.]

Consisting of air; resembling, or partaking of the nature of air. Hence: Unsubstantial; unreal.

Symbolically: Something unsubstantial, light, or volatile. "Charm ache with air." Shak. He was still all air and fire. Macaulay . [Air and fire being the finer and quicker elements as opposed to earth and water.]

Resembling air; thin; unsubstantial; not material; airlike. "An airy spirit." Shak.

That which alternates with something else; vicissitude. [R.] Grateful alternates of substantial. Prior.