单词 | substant |
释义 | substantn.adj. 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. 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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