succedaneous
English edit
Adjective edit
succedaneous (comparative more succedaneous, superlative most succedaneous)
- Pertaining to, or acting as, a succedaneum; supplying the place of something else; being, or employed as, a substitute for another.[1]
- 1734, William Stukeley, Of the Gout, J. Roberts, page 16:
- Hence the cure of the gout, by our artificial oyls, analogous and succedaneous to the natural.
References edit
- ^ “succedaneous”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.