substantific
/ˌsʌbst(ə)nˈtɪfɪk/adjective
That produces substance; that substantifies.
- Frequently in substantific marrow: the vital centre, the essence (from Rabelais' Gargantua)..
Origin
Mid 17th century; earliest use found in Thomas Johnson (d. 1644), apothecary and soldier. From (i) Middle French, French †substantifique essential, vital.
- undeservedly
- undeserving
- field glass
- field glasses
- field goal
- field grade
- field-grade officer
- field-grade rank
- field grey
- field guide
- field gun
- field gunner
- field hand
- field hat
- field hay
- field holler
- field hospital
- field house
- field ice
- field-induced
- fielding average
- Fieldingesque
- Fielding, Henry
- fielding percentage
- field ion microscope