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Sub*stan`ti*al"i*ty (?), n. The quality or state of being substantial; corporiety; materiality.

The soul is a stranger to such gross substantiality.

Glanvill.

Sub*stan"tial*ize (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Substantialized (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Substantializing (?).] To make substantial.

Sub*stan"tial*ly, adv. In a substantial manner; in substance; essentially.

In him all his Father shone, Substantially expressed.

Milton.

The laws of this religion would make men, if they would truly observe them, substantially religious toward God, chastle, and temperate.

Tillotson.

Sub*stan"tial*ness, n. The quality or state of being substantial; as, the substantialness of a wall or column.

Sub*stan"tials (?), n. pl. Essential parts. Ayliffe.

Sub*stan"ti*ate (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Substantiated (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Substantiating.] 1. To make to exist; to make real. Ayliffe.

2. To establish the existence or truth of by proof or competent evidence; to verify; as, to substantiate a charge or allegation; to substantiate a declaration.

Observation is, in turn, wanted to direct and substantiate the course of experiment.

Coleridge.

Sub*stan`ti*a"tion (?), n. The act of substantiating or proving; evidence; proof.

Sub`stan*ti"val (?), a. Of or pertaining to a substantive; of the nature of substantive. -- Sub`stan*ti"val*ly, adv.

Sub"stan*tive (?), a. [L. substantivus: cf. F. substantif.] 1. Betokening or expressing existence; as, the substantive verb, that is, the verb to be.

2. Depending on itself; independent.

He considered how sufficient and substantive this land was to maintain itself without any aid of the foreigner.

Bacon.

3. Enduring; solid; firm; substantial.

Strength and magnitude are qualities which impress the imagination in a powerful and substantive manner.

Hazlitt.

4. Pertaining to, or constituting, the essential part or principles; as, the law substantive.

Noun substantive (Gram.), a noun which designates an object, material or immaterial; a substantive. -- Substantive color, one which communicates its color without the aid of a mordant or base; -- opposed to adjective color.

Sub"stan*tive, n. [Cf. F. substantif.] (Gram.) A noun or name; the part of speech which designates something that exists, or some object of thought, either material or immaterial; as, the words man, horse, city, goodness, excellence, are substantives.