Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To render substantial; give reality to.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To make substantial.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To give something
substance (actualexistence )
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Examples
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These ultra-realist philosophers substantialize time; others again make it a complete being, but of the accidental order.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913
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They then proceed to substantialize by darkening in tint throughout.
Mars 1895
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I liked well to see that strange life, which even the stout, dead-in - earnest little Bohemian musicians, piping in the centre of the Piazza, could not altogether substantialize, and which constantly took immateriality from the loveliness of its environment.
Venetian Life William Dean Howells 1878
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It is this ideal world, this divine intelligence, existing with God from all eternity, and called by Plato which he is supposed to personify, to substantialize; while an attentive examination is sufficient to convince us that he has never assigned it an existence external to the Deity,
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 2 Edward Gibbon 1765
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China to further substantialize the content of their bilateral strategic and mutually beneficial relations, Prime
WN.com - Articles related to CORRECTED - Japan pledges $400 mln climate change loan to Indonesia 2009
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China to further substantialize the content of their bilateral strategic and mutually beneficial relations, Prime
WN.com - Articles related to CORRECTED - Japan pledges $400 mln climate change loan to Indonesia 2009
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The new prime China to further substantialize the content of their bilateral strategic and mutually beneficial relations, Prime
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'The China to further substantialize the content of their bilateral strategic and mutually beneficial relations, Prime Korean President Lee Myung-bak (R) before summit at presidential Blue House in minister and South Korea's president are maintaining a Pyongyang vow to strengthen friendship Tuesday, October 06, 2009
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China to further substantialize the content of their bilateral strategic and mutually beneficial relations, Prime
WN.com - Articles related to CORRECTED - Japan pledges $400 mln climate change loan to Indonesia 2009
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China to further substantialize the content of their bilateral strategic and mutually beneficial relations, Prime
WN.com - Articles related to CORRECTED - Japan pledges $400 mln climate change loan to Indonesia 2009
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