a. [f. SUBSTANTIVE + -AL 1.]
1. Gram. Of, belonging to, or consisting of, a substantive or substantives.
a. 1832. Bentham, Language, Wks. 1843, VIII. 326/2. The substantival name of a quality presents the idea, in the character of a complete idea.
1843. Proc. Philol. Soc., I. 74. The substantival inflexions ir, ar.
1881. Nation (N. Y.), XXXII. 425. Nine-tenths of the New England Algonkin proper names … were composed of an adjectival and a substantival element.
2. Existing substantially.
1884. Mind, IX. 128. The real is individual, self-existent, substantival.
Hence Substantivally adv., as a substantive.
1873. Earle, Philol. Engl. Tongue (ed. 2), § 479. The form none is only used substantivally.
1892. Earle & Plummer, in O. E. Chron. Gloss. 373/2. Neuter used substantivally.
