a. [ad. late L. substitūtīvus, f. substitūt- (see SUBSTITUTE v.): see -IVE. Cf. F. substituif.]
† 1. Belonging to, characteristic of, or involving the appointment of, a substitute or deputy. Obs.
1600. W. Watson, Decacordon (1602), 324. [Father Parsons has] authorized his subiect Master Blackwell with so ample immunities, priuiledges,… and substitutiue iurisdiction, as neither pope nor prince … may … haue to doe with him.
1616. Champney, Voc. Bps., 92. Christ … hath said it not only to his Apostles, but also to all Prelates, that shall suceede them by substitutive ordination.
1640. Howell, Dodona’s Gr., 130. His Highness might thinke fit to leave a substitutive power, with whom be pleased to bee contracted to the La: Amira.
2. Taking, or fitted to take, the place of something else: in varions more or less technical applications (see quots.).
1668. Wilkins, Real Char., III. ii. § 5. 308. Those Substitutive Particles, which serve to supply the room of some sentence or complex part of it, are stiled Interjections.
1865. Brande & Cox, Dict. Sci., etc., I. 601/2. Currency,… a generic term employed to designate the conventional measure of value, whether the measure be immediate, as gold and silver coin, or substitutive, as bank-notes and their analogies.
1876. Dunglison, Med. Lex., 995/2. An agent is said to be ‘substitutive,’ which—as in the case of nitrate of silver applied to inflammation of a mucous membrane—substitutes a temporary irritation for one tending to be more permanent. Such a mode of treatment is termed substitutive medication.
1903. F. W. H. Myers, Hum. Pers., II. 34. The question may be raised as to whether the second figure seen may not have been, so to say, substitutive.
1908. Academy, 18 Jan., 356/1. He suggests instead that they should be allowed to record substitutive votes, by numbering the candidates ‘1,’ ‘2,’ ‘3,’ etc.
1913. Nation, 4 Jan., 605/1. ‘This tax is proposed to take the place of certain rates which politicians and economists of all sorts have long agreed should be national rather than local burdens.’… I have insisted that this tax is substitutive, not cumulative.
b. Logic. Of a proposition or judgment: = CONDITIONAL a. 5.
1656. Blount, Glossogr., Substitutive,… It is also a term in Logick, as Propositio substitutiva, a conditional Proposition.
1822. T. Taylor, Apuleius, 376. The other [species of proposition is] substitutive or conditional.
1853. Abp. Thomson, Laws Th. (ed. 3), 155. The judgment in which definition is predicated, we call a substitutive judgment, because it furnishes a predicate identical with the subject as to sphere or extension, and therefore capable of being substituted for it.
1864. Bowen, Logic, v. 109. In Substitutive Judgments the sign of equality may be used as the Copula.
3. Theol. Involving a theory of substitution.
1865. Bushnell, Vicar. Sacr., I. iii. (1866), 43. The full vicarious typology and substitutive import of the original Greek version.
1882–3. Schaff’s Encycl. Relig. Knowl., I. 205/1. A substitutive faith of the Church, by which the band of original sin is broken.
4. Dependent upon a legal substitution or designation of heirs in remainder.
1853. Act 16 & 17 Vict., c. 51 § 2. Every … disposition of property, by reason whereof any person has … become beneficially entitled to any property … either originally or by way of substitutive limitation.
Hence Substitutively adv., vicariously.
1890. Lippincott’s Mag., Jan., 117. Thus did he execute his opponent … substitutively.
