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substructure|ˈsʌbstrʌktjʊə(r)|
[f. sub- 3 + structure, after prec.]
a. Arch. That part of a building which supports the superstructure; an under-structure, substruction.
1726Leoni Alberti's Archit. I. 48/1 These..Stones must be..link'd with the under Courses, so as to make a kind of pavement at top to..protect the Substructure. 1840Longfellow Skel. Arm. Introd., The substructure of a windmill. 1861A. Beresford-Hope Engl. Cathedral 19th C. 89 The moderate scantlings..obviate the risk of the roof crushing down the substructure. 1876Encycl. Brit. IV. 284/1 The substructure of a bridge consists of foundations, abutments, and piers. 1884Manch. Exam. 19 Dec. 5/3 The sub-structure of the pier.
b. transf. and fig.
1735S. Harris Comm. 53rd Ch. Isa. Pref. 16 A substructure of their chronology, geography, and history. 1851Jrnl. Asiat. Soc. Bengal 7 The kingdom of Menes..rests upon a venerable substructure of several centuries of the Nile valley. 1856Kane Arctic Expl. II. xxvii. 271 This glacier..sloped gradually upward..and then, following the irregularities of its rocky sub-structure, suddenly became a steep crevassed hill. 1875E. White Life in Christ i. viii. (1878) 73 No decisive anticipation of immortality for mankind as a substructure for religious faith can be deduced.
Hence subˈstructural a., of the nature of a substructure; ˈsubstructured a. [-ed2], having a substructure.
1866Pall Mall Gaz. 12 May 12 A narrative of long public services, mostly underground and substructural. 1884Homilet. Monthly Sept. 684 These are the substructural truths of revelation. 1952Gerth & Martindale tr. M. Weber's Anc. Judaism iii. x. 254 Babylonia and Egypt knew no unified, religiously substructured ethic. 1971Black Scholar June 52/2 The substructured prison movements are gaining momentum. |