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单词 substant
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substantn.adj.

Brit. /ˈsʌbstənt/, U.S. /ˈsəbstənt/
Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin substant-, substāns, substāre.
Etymology: < classical Latin substant-, substāns, present participle of substāre (see substance n.). With use as noun compare post-classical Latin substantia (neuter plural) existence (4th cent.).
Now rare.
A. n.
Something that subsists.
ΘΚΠ
the world > existence and causation > existence > substantiality or concreteness > [noun] > substantiality or subsistence > that which has substantial existence
substance1340
substant1597
substantiality1603
subsistence1605
subsistencya1628
existency1651
subsistent1656
substander1662
1597 J. Payne Royall Exchange 24 The substants of bodie and soule have nothinge commune with this spirituall mariage.
1663 G. Harvey Archelogia Philosophica Nova I. ii. xii. 51 If you take away quantity from a being, whereby shall that being become a Substant to other Modes?
1892 Monist 2 214 The doctrine of evolution itself forbids us to regard all ejects as being of the same substant as mind.
1968 C. J. Ducasse Truth, Knowl. & Causation vii. 69 Change of the type concerned in all such cases is termed transmutation, metamorphosis, or transformation. In the occurrence of it, the given substant ‘submerges’ and the substant that replaces it ‘emerges’.
1993 R. Hoffman Portion of Reason xvii. 338 A perceptual object is a substant or an occurrent, ie, that which persists through some duration and has properties.
B. adj.
1. Substantial; subsistent.
ΘΚΠ
the world > existence and causation > existence > substantiality or concreteness > [adjective]
substantiala1425
subsistent1597
subsisting1597
substant1618
subsistential1620
substanding1662
substantive1787
substantival1884
1618 W. Lithgow Pilgrimes Farewell sig. Gii Who guides mee most, that guide I most misknow, Suspectes the Shaddow, for a substant Show.
1660 T. Stanley Hist. Philos. III. i. 137 The Pythagoreans reduce all Beeings, subsistent or substant, immediately to Idæa's which truly are.
a1770 T. Chatterton Compl. Wks. (1971) I. 32 Tru as a Shadow to a substant thynge, So tru he guarded Harold his good Kynge.
1838 J. E. Reade Italy i. xxv Divinest Plato! do we gaze on thee Still living through the vaporous ages fled A substant and eternal memory.
1952 E. Jordan Ess. Crit. ix. 335 The pattern formed of relations has a substant stuff or body which is contoured by the relations.
2. That lies beneath. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > relative position > low position > [adjective] > situated or placed under
underlaida1100
subjected?a1425
suppositivec1475
subject?1541
subjacent1598
subterjacent1598
underlying1611
subjunct1639
supposite1640
suppedaneous1646
subordinate1648
subdititious1657
substrated1663
succumbent1664
subtended1670
substrate1678
subadjacent1722
supposed1766
subtending1777
substrative1823
underset1845
infraposed1854
substant1883
underneath1894
underlappingc1900
1883 Cent. Mag. 27 146 Its [sc. a glacier's] substant ice curls freely.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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n.adj.1597
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