Obs. [Rendering of L. substans (see SUBSTANCE sb.).] A thing that subsists. So Substanding ppl. a., subsisting.
1662. J. Chandler, Van Helmont’s Oriat., 144. A truly substanding or remaining Being [orig. vere substantis entis]. Ibid., 345. The Substance of that Substander or remainer [orig. ejusque substantis substantia].
