succedaneous

English

Adjective

succedaneous (comparative more succedaneous, superlative most succedaneous)

1. 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

1. ^ succedaneous in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913