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Substituted

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sub·sti·tute  (sbst-tt, -tyt)
n.
1. One that takes the place of another; a replacement: "Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality" (Barbara Grizzuti Harrison).
2. Grammar A word or construction used in place of another word, phrase, or clause.
v. sub·sti·tut·ed, sub·sti·tut·ing, sub·sti·tutes
v.tr.
1. To put or use (a person or thing) in place of another: "substituting moral power for physical force" (Elizabeth Cady Stanton).
2. Chemistry To replace (one or more elements or radicals in a compound) by other elements or radicals.
v.intr.
To take the place of another: "Only art can substitute for nature" (Leonard Bernstein).

[Middle English, from Old French substitut, from Latin substittus, past participle of substituere, to substitute : sub-, in place of; see sub- + statuere, to cause to stand; see st- in Indo-European roots.]

substi·tuta·bilit·y n.
substi·tuta·ble adj.


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In continental Greece (1), on the other hand, but especially in Boeotia, a new form of epic sprang up, which for the romance and PATHOS of the Ionian School substituted the practical and matter-of-fact.
Our own flags should be substituted for those of the enemy, and the chariots mingled and used in conjunction with ours.
On that day the Philadelphia iron-forger then believed himself victorious, and could not evince contempt enough for his rival; but when the other afterward substituted for conical shot simple
 
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