substitutionaryadj.

1772 A. M. Toplady Clerical Subscription No Grievance 23 The Son of Man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his Life,..a substitutionary Ransom for many.

1842 J. P. Smith Four Disc. (ed. 2) Notes 265 Other sacrifices also were symbols of a substitutionary death; for example, the sacrifice for ratifying a covenant;..and the sin-offering on account of a murder perpetrated by some unknown person.

1862 J. Thrupp Anglo-Saxon Home ii. 92 We find another lady with the substitutionary name of the Crow.

1881 C. New Serm. preached in Hastings iii. 25 This substitutionary aspect of the Atonement.

1883 Law Rep.: Chancery Div. 23 739 If the parent was dead at the date of the will..his issue are not able to take under the substitutionary gift.

1908 Q. Rev. July 98 He..succeeded Geoffrey as substitutionary forester of North Petherton Park and Forest.

1947 Michigan Law Rev. 45 528 Unless the context of the will indicates an intent to effect a substitutionary gift.

2000 R. K. Johnston in A. Hastings et al. Oxf. Compan. Christian Thought 219/1 Certain fundamental doctrines—human sinfulness, the virgin birth, Christ's substitutionary Atonement.., and so on.