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subst.

American  

abbreviation

  1. substantive.

  2. substantively.

  3. substitute.

subst. British  

abbreviation

  1. substantive

  2. substitute

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Example Sentences

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

From New Latin Grammar by Bennett, Charles E. (Charles Edwin)

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

From New Latin Grammar by Bennett, Charles E. (Charles Edwin)

I, 632, 637, 821, 923; II, 238; IV, 288, 320 Thrinacia, the island Sicily, IV, 965 Thrinacian sea, IV, 994 Thyiades, Bacchants, I, 636 Thynian, II, 350, 460, 485, 548, 673: as subst. in plur.,

From The Argonautica by Seaton, R. C. (Robert Cooper)

Castor and Polydeuces, I, 1045; II, 806; III, 1315; IV, 593 Typhaon, II, 1211 Typhaonian rock, II, 1210 Typhoeus, II, 38 Tyrrhenian, Etruscan, III, 312; IV, 660, 850, 856:   as subst. in plur.,

From The Argonautica by Seaton, R. C. (Robert Cooper)

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

From New Latin Grammar by Bennett, Charles E. (Charles Edwin)

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