Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter S - Page 185

Substitute (n.) a person who enlists for military service in the place of a conscript or drafted man.

Substituted (imp. & p. p.) of Substitute

Substituting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Substitute

Substitute (n.) To put in the place of another person or thing; to exchange.

Substituted (a.) Exchanged; put in the place of another.

Substituted (a.) Containing substitutions or replacements; having been subjected to the process of substitution, or having some of its parts replaced; as, alcohol is a substituted water; methyl amine is a substituted ammonia.

Substitution (n.) The act of substituting or putting one person or thing in the place of another; as, the substitution of an agent, attorney, or representative to act for one in his absense; the substitution of bank notes for gold and silver as a circulating medium.

Substitution (n.) The state of being substituted for another.

Substitution (n.) The office or authority of one acting for another; delegated authority.

Substitution (n.) The designation of a person in a will to take a devise or legacy, either on failure of a former devisee or legatee by incapacity or unwillingness to accept, or after him.

Substitution (n.) The doctrine that Christ suffered vicariously, being substituted for the sinner, and that his sufferings were expiatory.

Substitution (n.) The act or process of substituting an atom or radical for another atom or radical; metethesis; also, the state of being so substituted. See Metathesis.

Substitutional (a.) Of or pertaining to substitution; standing in the place of another; substituted.

Substitutionary (a.) Of or pertaining to substitution; substitutional.

Substitutive (a.) Tending to afford or furnish a substitute; making substitution; capable of being substituted.

Substract (v. t.) To subtract; to withdraw.

Substraction (n.) Subtraction; deduction.

Substraction (n.) See Subtraction, 3.

Substractor (n.) One who subtracts.

Substractor (n.) A detractor; a slanderer.

Substrate (n.) A substratum.

Substrate (a.) Having very slight furrows.

Substrate (v. t.) To strew or lay under anything.

Substrata (pl. ) of Substratum

Substratum (n.) That which is laid or spread under; that which underlies something, as a layer of earth lying under another; specifically (Agric.), the subsoil.

Substratum (n.) The permanent subject of qualities or cause of phenomena; substance.

Substruct (v. t.) To build beneath something; to lay as the foundation.

Substruction (n.) Underbuilding; the foundation, or any preliminary structure intended to raise the lower floor or basement of a building above the natural level of the ground.

Substructure (n.) Same as Substruction.

Substructure (n.) An under structure; a foundation; groundwork.

Substylar (a.) Pertaining to the substyle.

Substyle (n.) A right line on which the style, or gnomon, of a dial is erected; being the common section of the face of the dial and a plane perpendicular to it passing through the style.

Subsulphate (n.) A sulphate with an excess of the base.

Subsulphide (n.) A nonacid compound consisting of one equivalent of sulphur and more than one equivalent of some other body, as a metal.

Subsultive (a.) Subsultory.

Subsultory (a.) Bounding; leaping; moving by sudden leaps or starts.

Subsultus (n.) A starting, twitching, or convulsive motion.

Subsumable (a.) Capable of being subsumed.

Subsume (v. t.) To take up into or under, as individual under species, species under genus, or particular under universal; to place (any one cognition) under another as belonging to it; to include under something else.

Subsumption (n.) The act of subsuming, or of including under another.

Subsumption (n.) That which is subsumed, as the minor clause or premise of a syllogism.

Subsumptive (a.) Relating to, or containing, a subsumption.

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

Subtartarean (a.) Being or living under Tartarus; infernal.

Subtectacle (n.) A space under a roof; a tabernacle; a dwelling.

Subtegulaneous (a.) Under the roof or eaves; within doors.

Subtenant (n.) One who rents a tenement, or land, etc., of one who is also a tenant; an undertenant.

Subtended (imp. & p. p.) of Subtend

Subtending (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Subtend

Subtend (v. t.) To extend under, or be opposed to; as, the line of a triangle which subtends the right angle; the chord subtends an arc.

Subtense (a.) A line subtending, or stretching across; a chord; as, the subtense of an arc.

Subtepid (a.) Slightly tepid.

Subterete (a.) Somewhat terete.

Subterfluent (a.) Alt. of Subterfluous

Subterfluous (a.) Running under or beneath.

Subterfuge (n.) That to which one resorts for escape or concealment; an artifice employed to escape censure or the force of an argument, or to justify opinions or conduct; a shift; an evasion.

Subterrane (n.) A cave or room under ground.

Subterraneal (a.) Subterranean.

Subterranean (a.) Alt. of Subterraneous

Subterraneous (a.) Being or lying under the surface of the earth; situated within the earth, or under ground; as, subterranean springs; a subterraneous passage.

Subterranity (n.) A place under ground; a subterrany.

Subterrany (a.) Subterranean.

Subterrany (n.) A subterranean place.

Subterrene (a.) Subterraneous.

Subterrestrial (a.) Subterranean.

Subthalamic (a.) Situated under the optic thalamus.

Subtile (a.) Thin; not dense or gross; rare; as, subtile air; subtile vapor; a subtile medium.

Subtile (a.) Delicately constituted or constructed; nice; fine; delicate; tenuous; finely woven.

Subtile (a.) Acute; piercing; searching.

Subtile (a.) Characterized by nicety of discrimination; discerning; delicate; refined; subtle.

Subtile (a.) Sly; artful; cunning; crafty; subtle; as, a subtile person; a subtile adversary; a subtile scheme.

Subtiliate (v. t.) To make thin or rare.

Subtilism (n.) The quality or state of being subtile; subtility; subtlety.

Subtility (n.) Subtilty.

Subtilization (n.) The act of making subtile.

Subtilization (n.) The operation of making so volatile as to rise in steam or vapor.

Subtilization (n.) Refinement; subtlety; extreme attenuation.

Subtilized (imp. & p. p.) of Subtilize

Subtilizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Subtilize

Subtilize (v. t.) To make thin or fine; to make less gross or coarse.

Subtilize (v. t.) To refine; to spin into niceties; as, to subtilize arguments.

Subtilize (v. i.) To refine in argument; to make very nice distinctions.

Subtilizer (n.) One who subtilizes.

Subtilty (n.) The quality or state of being subtile; thinness; fineness; as, the subtility of air or light.

Subtilty (n.) Refinement; extreme acuteness; subtlety.

Subtilty (n.) Cunning; skill; craft.

Subtilty (n.) Slyness in design; artifice; guile; a cunning design or artifice; a trick; subtlety.

Subtle (superl.) Sly in design; artful; cunning; insinuating; subtile; -- applied to persons; as, a subtle foe.

Subtle (superl.) Cunningly devised; crafty; treacherous; as, a subtle stratagem.

Subtle (superl.) Characterized by refinement and niceness in drawing distinctions; nicely discriminating; -- said of persons; as, a subtle logician; refined; tenuous; sinuous; insinuating; hence, penetrative or pervasive; -- said of the mind; its faculties, or its operations; as, a subtle intellect; a subtle imagination; a subtle process of thought; also, difficult of apprehension; elusive.

Subtle (superl.) Smooth and deceptive.

Subtleness (n.) The quality or state of being subtle; subtlety.

Subtleties (pl. ) of Subtlety

Subtlety (n.) The quality or state of being subtle, or sly; cunning; craftiness; artfulness.

Subtlety (n.) Nice discernment with delicacy of mental action; nicety of discrimination.

Subtlety (n.) Something that is sly, crafty, or delusive.

Subtly (adv.) In a subtle manner; slyly; artfully; cunningly.

Subtly (adv.) Nicely; delicately.

Subtly (adv.) Deceitfully; delusively.

Subtonic (a.) Applied to, or distinguishing, a speech element consisting of tone, or proper vocal sound, not pure as in the vowels, but dimmed and otherwise modified by some kind of obstruction in the oral or the nasal passage, and in some cases with a mixture of breath sound; -- a term introduced by Dr. James Rush in 1833. See Guide to Pronunciation, //155, 199-202.

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