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Substituted

Substituted \Sub"stit"uted\, a.

  1. Exchanged; put in the place of another.

  2. (Chem.) Containing substitutions or replacements; having been subjected to the process of substitution, or having some of its parts replaced; as, alcohol is a substituted water; methyl amine is a substituted ammonia.

    Substituted executor (Law), an executor appointed to act in place of one removed or resigned.

Substituted

Substitute \Sub"stit"ute\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Substituted; p. pr. & vb. n. Substituting.] [See Substitute, n.] To put in the place of another person or thing; to exchange.

Some few verses are inserted or substituted in the room of others.
--Congreve.

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substituted

vb. (en-past of: substitute)

Usage examples of "substituted".

Army, were substituted, and agreed to, the actual surrender taking place April 26th, near Durham, North Carolina.

Jefferson, in a symbolic gesture, substituted the written message for the presidential address.

They seem clearly to indicate that by substantiating a commutation order for a deed of pardon, a President can always have his way in such matters, provided the substituted penalty is authorized by law and does not in common understanding exceed the original penalty.

There is no constitutional barrier if the form and nature of substituted service meet the requirements of due process.

State courts for purposes of a personal judgment, whether obtained by means of appropriate, substituted service, or by actual personal service on the resident at a point outside the State.

The rack and torture chamber may not be substituted for the witness stand.

Alien Property Custodian vesting in himself, for the United States, under authority of the Trading with the Enemy Act and Executive Order, all rights of claimants in the vessels and to the fund substituted therefor was held not to be a violation of section four.

The system permits great flexibility: no longer did all messages have to be enciphered with one of a relatively few standard sequences of alphabets, but different ambassadors could be given individual keys, and, if it were feared that a key had been stolen or solved, a new one could be substituted with the greatest of ease.

Recovered codegroups were substituted into the Zimmermann telegram, and on February 5 Hall was able to show a more fully solved version of it to Lord Hardinge at the Foreign Office.

It did not as far as we can see on the theory of satisfaction by an equivalent substituted suffering require death.

French Revolution has substituted for being torn to pieces by horses or broken on the wheel.

Ground fennel seed adds an unexpected twist, and, of course, other seafood may be substituted for part of the squid.

Asia, in part because it can be substituted for nonseafood ingredients, such as won-tons, creating a pleasant variation on a classic theme.

The members of the order, all of whom were charged with spreading the good word by whatever means seemed good to them, had learned decades ago that their proselytizing was often resented, and had substituted technology for personal salesmanship wherever possible.

Thus matters remained until the Meiji period swept away feudalism, and substituted for the military town the modern capital of a living nation.