Vocabulary : Substitution to Substratum

Substitution : 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. ;; The state of being substituted for another. ;; The office or authority of one acting for another; delegated authority. ;; 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. ;; The doctrine that Christ suffered vicariously, being substituted for the sinner, and that his sufferings were expiatory. ;; 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 : Of or pertaining to substitution; standing in the place of another; substituted.
Substitutionary : Of or pertaining to substitution; substitutional.
Substitutive : Tending to afford or furnish a substitute; making substitution; capable of being substituted.
Substract : To subtract; to withdraw.
Substraction : Subtraction; deduction. ;; See Subtraction, 3.
Substractor : One who subtracts. ;; A detractor; a slanderer.
Substrata : of Substratum
Substrate : A substratum. ;; Having very slight furrows. ;; To strew or lay under anything.
Substratum : That which is laid or spread under; that which underlies something, as a layer of earth lying under another; specifically (Agric.), the subsoil. ;; The permanent subject of qualities or cause of phenomena; substance.
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