succedaneous
English
Adjective
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.
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References
- succedaneous in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.