In the preceding senses, with various defining attributes.

A substance used or acted upon in a physical operation; a substance undergoing a physical or chemical process. Obsolete.

Forming the substratum or substance. Chiefly in matter subject: = subject matter, n. Obsolete.

Logic and Metaphysics. A category; esp. each of the ten categories of Aristotle (see category, n. 1a). Now historical.

Philosophy. Chiefly Metaphysics. Without article: the aspect of a thing which relates to its nature, condition, or properties.

a distinct individual thing; = substance, n. 2.

Philosophy. Chiefly in plural. In Aristotelian logic: each of the five (originally four) classes of predicate, to one or other of which every…

Logic. Any attribute, characteristic, or quality of an object; spec. (a) (in Aristotelian logic) a characteristic which is peculiar to a particular…

Logic. = property, n. 1c(a).

Philosophy. A predicate that transcends, or cannot be classed under, any of the Aristotelian categories or predicaments. Obsolete.

final cause: a term introduced into philosophical language by the schoolmen as a transl. of Aristotle's fourth cause, τὸ οὗ ἕνεκα or τέλος, the end…

Logic and metaphorical. A term (meaning literally ‘predication’ or ‘assertion’) given to certain… Originally used by Aristotle, the nature and…

Logic. The eighth of the categories or predicaments of Aristotle; Having or possession: in Greek ἔχειν, Latin habitus. (See category, n. 1) Obsolete.

Usually in plural. Any of various concepts or relations treated at the beginning of Aristotle’s Categories, before the discussion of the categories…

Usually in plural. Any one of the five relations considered, after the predicaments themselves, at the end of the work on the ten predicaments or…

In Aristotle's use: The realization or complete expression of some function; the condition in which a potentiality has become an actuality.

Logic. In the Aristotelian logic (tr. Greek μετάληψις), Conversion of a hypothetical proposition into a categorical one.

Philosophy. Short for secondary quality. Obsolete.

= final cause at cause, n. 4b.

A transcendental conception, term, or quantity.

the nature or essence of a thing; = secondary substance at secondary, adj. 3f.

(a) Cricket a fielder placed between point and short slip, but further out; an additional short slip; also, the position occupied by him; (b) Lacrosse…

Philosophy. Any of various fundamental notions (such as time, space, substance, causality, etc.) that universally condition human thought and…

Of or belonging to Aristotle's Posterior Analytics. posterioristic doctrine: a doctrine contained in these. posterioristic universal: a universal…

Metaphysics. Substance, essence, being, spec. Aristotle's first category (category, n. 1).