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单词 succedaneum
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succedaneumn.

/sʌksɪˈdeɪnɪəm/
Forms: (Also 1700s–1800s succeedaneum.) Plural succedanea, succedaneums.
Etymology: modern Latin, neuter singular of Latin succēdāneus succedaneous adj.
1.
a. A thing which (rarely, a person who) replaces or serves in the place of another; a substitute.
ΘΚΠ
the world > time > change > exchange > substitution > [noun] > a substitute
changec1460
supplier1491
quid pro quo?1535
supply1567
vicegerent1583
substitute1589
vice1597
succedane1601
surrogate1644
succedaneum1651
succedaneum1662
vicar1676
superseder?1774
supersessor1810
locum tenens1814
supplial1837
remplaçant1850
fill-in1918
Stepney1928
stand-in1933
substituter1956
1662 W. Petty Treat. Taxes 82 Almost all commodities haue their substitutes or succedanea.
1679 J. Goodman Penitent Pardoned (1713) ii. ii. 182 Others..will part with a sin without a succedaneum, or entertaining any other in its room.
a1734 R. North Examen (1740) iii. viii. §63 632 Where Reason and Justice is wanted, a Face of Assurance is the Succedaneum.
1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth I. 238 A kind of succedaneum which has been lately conceived to answer the purpose of fresh-water.
1774 H. Walpole Lett. (1857) VI. 124 In lieu of me, you will have a charming succedaneum, Lady Harriet Stanhope.
1844 H. Stephens Bk. of Farm II. 193 But independent of all succedanea, which may be given to horses at times as a treat,..there should be a regular feed prepared for farm-horses.
1860 C. Kingsley Limits Exact Sci. 17 They are..apt..to patch them where they are weakest, by that most dangerous succedaneum of vague and grand epithets.
1911 J. A. MacCulloch Relig. Anc. Celts ix. 162 As kings were represented by a substitute, so the sacred tree..may also have had its succedaneum.
b. Const. for.
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1662 H. Stubbe Indian Nectar iii. 56 It is impossible to provide any succedanea, or substitutes for these kind of Commodities.
1699 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 21 311 How the Arabians fell first into the use of Coffee is hard to tell, perhaps 'twas their Succedaneum for Wine.
1777 J. Cook Jrnl. 29 Nov. (1967) III. i. 251 Green Plantains being a very good succedaneum for bread.
1804 ‘Ignotus’ Culina 188 A Succedaneum for Green Pease in Winter.
1834 T. Pringle Afr. Sketches iii. 165 A pan of live charcoal or embers from our wooden fires was the usual succedaneum for a blazing hearth.
1847 C. Dickens Dombey & Son (1848) xxiii. 237 A pair of dreadnought pilot trousers, whereof the waistband was so very broad and high, that it became a succedaneum for a waistcoat.
1891 ‘R. Tellet’ Draught of Lethe II. 225 If you cannot afford a conscience, the best succedaneum for it is a keen sense of professional propriety.
c. Const. to.
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1667 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 2 516 The continual motion of their Gills, a Succedaneum to Lungs.
1733 J. Tull Horse-hoing Husbandry vii. 26 This is but an Imitation of the Hand-Hoe, or a Succedaneum to it.
1755 H. Walpole Lett. (1857) II. 477 He has contracted for a succedaneum to the Mingotti.
1827 J. Bentham Rationale Judicial Evid. III. v. vii. 143 Self-inculpative discourse..can never be an adequate succedaneum to judicial confession.
d. Const. of. (rare.)
ΘΚΠ
the world > time > change > exchange > substitution > [noun] > a substitute
changec1460
supplier1491
quid pro quo?1535
supply1567
vicegerent1583
substitute1589
vice1597
succedane1601
surrogate1644
succedaneum1651
succedaneum1662
vicar1676
superseder?1774
supersessor1810
locum tenens1814
supplial1837
remplaçant1850
fill-in1918
Stepney1928
stand-in1933
substituter1956
1651 J. French Art Distillation vi. 183 This Oil may be the Succedaneum of true gold.
1791 W. Gilpin Remarks Forest Scenery I. 81 The most beautiful succedaneum of the stone-pine, which these climates afford is the pinaster.
1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. I. ii. i. 41 Paper; which, in many ways, is the succedaneum of Gold.
2. Medicine. A drug, frequently of inferior efficacy, substituted for another.
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the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > [noun] > a medicine or medicament > substitute medicine
quid pro quo?1535
substitute1580
succedaneuma1648
succedany1657
a1648 Ld. Herbert Life (1976) 21 It being the manner of Apothecaries so frequently to put in the Succidania that no man is sure to find with them medicines made with the true drugs.
a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) Wales 21 Physicians have their Succedanea, or Seconds, which well supply the place of such Simples, which the Patient cannot procure.
1748 T. Smollett Roderick Random I. xix. 158 The most expert man at a succedaneum, of any apothecary in London.
1822 J. M. Good Study Med. III. 418 In such cases we must find out, by trial, what is its best succedaneum.
1866 A. Flint Treat. Princ. Med. 258 For this end the succedanea of opium, viz., conium, belladonna, and hydrocyanic acid may be prescribed.
3. Misused for: A remedy, cure. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > amending > [noun] > remedy > a remedy
salvea1300
plaster1340
booty1581
succedaneum1737
nostrum1741
silver bullet1951
magic bullet1992
1737 Ld. Chesterfield in Gentleman's Mag. 7 498 Their Case is certainly above Comfort, and, I own, I am at a Loss what to recommend to 'em. Succedaneums there are none, I shall only endeavour to suggest Lenitives.
1785 H. Walpole Let. to H. Mann 24 June Italian summers are a good succedaneum, and, I hope, will be more efficacious than our north-easterly winds.
1789 J. Williams Nat. Hist. Mineral Kingdom I. 179 I am politician enough to be able to suggest the proper remedy or succedaneum for all these difficulties.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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