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Substitute [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. One person put in the place of another to answer the same purpose. A person may be a substitute with full powers to act for another in an office. Representatives in legislation are the substitutes of their constituents. The orthodox creed of christians is that Christ dies as the substitute of sinners.

2. One thing put in the place of another. If you have not one medicine, use another as its substitute

Substitute [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To put in the place of another.

2. Some few verses are inserted or substituted in the room of others.

Substitute [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. One who, or that which, is substituted or put in the place of another; one who acts for another; that which stands in lieu of something else

2. a person who enlists for military service in the place of a conscript or drafted man.

3. To put in the place of another person or thing; to exchange.

Substituted [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Exchanged; put in the place of another.

2. Containing substitutions or replacements; having been subjected to the process of substitution, or having some of its parts replaced; as, alcohol is a substituted water; methyl amine is a substituted ammonia.

Substituted [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Substitution Roget’s Thesaurus §147

N. substitution, commutation, supplanting, metaphor, metonymy, substitute, ersatz, makeshift, temporary expedient, replacement, succedaneum, shift, pis aller, stopgap, jury rigging, jury mast, locum tenens, warming pan, dummy, scapegoat, double, changeling, quid pro quo, alternative, representative, palimpsest, price, purchase money, consideration, equivalent

V. substitute, put in the place of, change for, make way for, give place to, supply the place of, take the place of, supplant, supersede, replace, cut out, serve as a substitute, step into stand in the shoes of, jury rig, make a shift with, put up with, borrow from peter to pay paul, take money out of one pocket and put it in another, cannibalize, commute, redeem, compound for

Adj. substituted &c, ersatz, phony, vicarious, subdititious

Adv. instead, in place of, in lieu of, in the stead of, in the room of, faute de mieux

Substitute Roget’s Thesaurus §634

N. substitute, deputy, badli

Deputy Roget’s Thesaurus §759

N. deputy, substitute, vice, proxy, locum tenens, # badli, delegate, representative, next friend, surrogate, secondary, regent, viceregent, vizier, minister, vicar, premier, chancellor, prefect, provost, warden, lieutenant, archon, consul, proconsul, viceroy, commissioner, tsung- li yamen, wai wu pu, plenipotentiary, alter ego, team, eight, eleven, champion

V. be deputy, stand for, appear for, hold a brief for, answer for, represent, stand in the shoes of, walk in the shoes of, stand in the stead of, ablegate, accredit

Adj. acting, vice, vice regal, accredited to

Adv. in behalf of

Transfer Roget’s Thesaurus §783

N. transfer, conveyance, assignment, alienation, # abalienation, demise, limitation, conveyancing, transmission, enfeoffment, bargain and sale, lease and release, exchange, barter, substitution, succession, reversion, shifting use, shifting trust, devolution

V. transfer, convey, alienate, alien, assign, grant, consign, make over, hand over, pass, hand, transmit, negotiate, hand down, exchange, change hands, change hands from one to another, devolve, succeed, come into possession, abalienate, disinherit, dispossess, substitute

Adj. alienable, negotiable

Phr. estate coming into possession