subst.

American

abbreviation

substantive.
substantively.
substitute.

subst. British

abbreviation

substantive
substitute

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Subst. and adj. in attributive or predicative combinations.

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Father Bliss tells me that the Voel is a mountain not far from St. Beuno's College in N. Wales, where the poem was written: and Dr. Henry Bradley that moel is primarily an adj. meaning bald: it becomes a fem, subst. meaning bare hill, and preceded by the article y becomes voel, in modern Welsh spelt foel.

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Wishing, verbs of, with subst. clause 296, 1; —— with obj. inf.,

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Asking, case const, with verbs of, 178, 1, c; —— subst. clauses w.,

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Commanding, dat. w. verbs of, 187, II; —— subst. clause w. verbs of, 295, 1; —— commands expressed by jussive subjv.,

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