Part 927

Bp. Burnet.

It is insolent in words, in manner; but in substance it is not only insulting, but alarming.

Burke.

3. Body; matter; material of which a thing is made; hence, substantiality; solidity; firmness; as, the substance of which a garment is made; some textile fabrics have little substance.

4. Material possessions; estate; property; resources.

And there wasted his substance with riotous living.

Luke xv. 13.

Thy substance, valued at the highest rate, Can not amount unto a hundred marks.

Shak.

We are destroying many thousand lives, and exhausting our substance, but not for our own interest.

Swift.

5. (Theol.) Same as Hypostasis, 2.

Sub"stance, v. t. To furnish or endow with substance; to supply property to; to make rich. [Obs.]

Sub"stance*less, a. Having no substance; unsubstantial. [R.] Coleridge.

Sub"stant (?), a. [L. substans, -antis, p. pr. of substare to be firm.] Substantial; firm. [R.] "[The glacier's] substant ice." The Century.

Sub*stan"tial (?), a. [F. substantiel, L. substantialis.] 1. Belonging to substance; actually existing; real; as, substantial life. Milton.

If this atheist would have his chance to be real and substantial agent, he is more stupid than the vulgar.

Bentley.

2. Not seeming or imaginary; not illusive; real; solid; true; veritable.

If happinessbe a substantial good.

Denham.

The substantial ornaments of virtue.

L'Estrange.

3. Corporeal; material; firm. "Most ponderous and substantial things." Shak.

The rainbow [appears to be] a large substantial arch.

I. Watts.

4. Having good substance; strong; stout; solid; firm; as, substantial cloth; a substantial fence or wall.

5. Possessed of goods or an estate; moderately wealthy; responsible; as, a substantial freeholder. "Substantial yeomen and burghers." Sir W. Scott.