Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Constituting substance.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective rare Substantial; firm.
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- adjective
substantial ;firm
Etymologies
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Examples
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Indiuidua uero non modo subsistunt uerum etiam substant, nam neque ipsa indigent accidentibus ut sint; informata enim sunt iam propriis et specificis differentiis et accidentibus ut esse possint ministrant, dum sunt scilicet subiecta.
The Theological Tractates and The Consolation of Philosophy Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius 1908
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Atque, uti Graeca utar oratione in rebus quae a Graecis agitata Latina interpretatione translata sunt: [Greek: hai ousiai en men tois katholou einai dunantai. en de tois atomois kai kata meros monois huphistantai], id est: essentiae in uniuersalibus quidem esse possunt, in solis uero indiuiduis et particularibus substant.
The Theological Tractates and The Consolation of Philosophy Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius 1908
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Its substant ice curls freely, molds, and breaks itself like water, breaks in waves, plastic like honey, crested lightly with a frozen spray; it winds tenderly about the rocky shore, and the granite, distintegrated into crumbs, flows on with it.
Mrs. Knollys 1907
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