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Word Meanings - SUBSTITUTIVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Tending to afford or furnish a substitute; making substitution; capable of being substituted. Bp. Wilkins.

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  • DEPUTABLE
    Fit to be deputed; suitable to act as a deputy. Carlyle.
  • VICARIOUS
    Acting as a substitute; -- said of abnormal action which replaces a suppressed normal function; as, vicarious hemorrhage replacing menstruation. (more info) turn, the position, place, or office of one person as assumed by another; akin
  • DELEGATION
    A kind of novation by which a debtor, to be liberated from his creditor, gives him a third person, who becomes obliged in his stead to the creditor, or to the person appointed by him. Pothier. (more info) 1. The act of delegating, or investing
  • DEPUTATION
    1. The act of deputing, or of appointing or commissioning a deputy or representative; office of a deputy or delegate; vicegerency. The authority of conscience stands founded upon its vicegerency and deputation under God. South. 2. The person or
  • REPRESENTATIVELY
    In a representative manner; vicariously.
  • DELEGATE
    delegate; de- + legare to send with a commission, to depute. See 1. Any one sent and empowered to act for another; one deputed to represent; a chosen deputy; a representative; a commissioner; a vicar. One elected by the people of a territory to
  • DELEGATORY
    Holding a delegated position. Nash.
  • DEPUTY
    1. One appointed as the substitue of another, and empowered to act for him, in his name or his behalf; a substitute in office; a lieutenant; a representative; a delegate; a vicegerent; as, the deputy of a prince, of a sheriff, of a township, etc.
  • SUBSTITUTIVE
    Tending to afford or furnish a substitute; making substitution; capable of being substituted. Bp. Wilkins.
  • REPRESENTATIVE
    Giving, or existing as, a transcript of what was originally presentative knowledge; as, representative faculties; representative knowledge. See Presentative, 3 and Represent, 8. (more info) 1. Fitted to represent; exhibiting a similitude.
  • REPRESENTATIVENESS
    The quality or state of being representative. Dr. Burnet observes, that every thought is attended with conssciousness and representativeness. Spectator.
  • PROCURATORIAL
    Of or pertaining to a procurator, or proctor; made by a proctor. Ayliffe.
  • DEPUTATOR
    One who deputes, or makes a deputation. Locke.
  • DEPUTIZE
    To appoint as one's deputy; to empower to act in one's stead; to depute.
  • VICARIOUSLY
    In a vicarious manner.
  • DEPUTE
    destine, allot; de- + putare to clean, prune, clear up, set in order, 1. To appoint as deputy or agent; to commission to act in one's place; to delegate. There is no man deputed of the king to hear thee. 2. Sam. xv. 3. Some persons, deputed by
  • SUBDELEGATE
    A subordinate delegate, or one with inferior powers.
  • CAMARA; CAMARA DOS PARES; CAMARADOS DEPUTADOS
    Chamber; house; -- used in Ca"ma*ra dos Pa"res, and Ca"ma*ra dos De`pu*ta"dos. See Legislature.
  • MISREPRESENTATIVE
    Tending to convey a wrong impression; misrepresenting.
  • APOSTOLIC DELEGATE
    The diplomatic agent of the pope highest in grade, superior to a nuncio.

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