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Succedaneous

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Suc`ce`da´ne`ous
a.1.Pertaining to, or acting as, a succedaneum; supplying the place of something else; being, or employed as, a substitute for another.


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" "The earth," he adds elsewhere, "especially if fresh, has a certain magnetism in it, by which it attracts the salt, power, or virtue (call it either) which gives it life, and is the logic of all the labor and stir we keep about it, to sustain us; all dungings and other sordid temperings being but the vicars succedaneous to this improvement.
Walden & on the Duty of Civil Disobedience by Thoreau, Henry David View in context
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