substantivelyadv.

a1500 in D. Thomson Middle Eng. Grammatical Texts (1984) 140 This adiectiue ‘bonum’ ys the neuter gender substantiuili [?a1500 Corpus Cambr. substantifly] sett.

1548 W. Thomas Ital. Gram. & Dict. Somma, substantiuely is the somme or full numbre in reckenyng.

1607 J. Cowell Interpreter sig. Kkk1^v/1 Reddendum, is vsed many times substantiuely for the clause in a lease, &c. Whereby the rent is reserued to the leasour.

1665 J. Brinsley Posing of Parts (rev. ed.) 131 These Genitives put Substantively, Tanti, quanti.

a1680 J. Glanvill Saducismus Triumphatus (1681) ii. 34 Tò δαιμόνιον, is to be understood Substantively for a Person, viz. an Evil Spirit.

1758 J. Upton in Spenser's Faerie Queen II. 433/2 The adjective is used substantively; as in the learned languages.

1768 E. Holdsworth Remarks & Diss. Virgil 171 Ruaeus and other interpreters join Galbaneo with Nidore: and it may be so too, if Galbaneo cannot be used substantively.

1807 G. Chalmers Caledonia I. iii. ix. 447 Cainianog..was formerly used substantively, for coin of different valuations.

1848 T. K. Arnold Elem. Greek Gram. 127 By a virtual substantive we mean any part of speech substantivized, i. e. used substantively.

1900 C. T. Dent et al. Mountaineering (new ed.) 438 Traverse, sometimes used substantively to denote a surface of rock, snow, or ice that has to be crossed horizontally.

1979 D. Lightfoot Princ. Diachronic Syntax iv. 173 Kispert..gives a crucial example of an adjective used substantively and in the strong form.

2004 Hist. Philos. Q. 21 242 Aquinas does sometimes use a Latin analogue of this term, artificiatum, which when used substantively means ‘a thing wrought by art’.

1598 F. Bacon Sacred Medit. in Essaies (new ed.) f. 27^v Which actions, they will haue to depende substantiuely and originally, and without any..subordination of causes vpon the will.

1606 R. Bowyer Diary 22 Jan. in Parl. Diary (1931) 3 The howse reiected that course and resolved to deale in the matter (as Mr. Speaker termed it) Substantively.

1660 Whole Triall Mr. Christopher Love 106 Though they be two treasons substantively, yet when they are laid as one continued act, they are but one.

1781 W. Blackstone Rep. I. 26 (Table) Whether, in a Question of Lapse the Time of Institution alleged under a Scilicet is materially and substantively averred.

1795 Trial Thomas Hardy III. 185 You observe that it is not charged as being Treason substantively and in itself, but only as it is committed in pursuance of the Treason against the King's person.

1844 S. R. Maitland Dark Ages 482 You are gods, and all of you the sons of the most High. But this adoptively, and not substantively.

1891 F. M. Wilson Primer on Browning 43 It may be said of Browning that, adjectively dramatic, he is not substantively a dramatist.

1937 S. Kent Electoral Procedure under Louis Philippe 61 It is one of those things which cannot be discussed substantively; only by tracing it through debate can its peculiar qualities be appreciated.

1977 Language 53 259/2 Those languages not treated substantively in this volume are now extinct.

1997 J. Rosenblatt & I. Lewis Children & Immigration vi. 28 If an application is considered substantively by the Home Office, the applicant will ordinarily complete a questionnaire.

1795 Copy Papers conc. Payment Certain Law Expences incurred by W. Hastings 19 The construction which I have ventured to put upon the Statute..is amply confirmed by the Sec. 111... But I am of the opinion, that this 111th Section does much more than substantively support the act of the Directors.

1809 ‘J. Gifford’ Hist. Polit. Life W. Pitt III. xvi. 24 The House might repose confidence in the servants of the Crown pending a negotiation, but that was substantively different from a pledge to support a war.

1887 Glasgow Herald 7 Mar. 5/5 The Bank reserve was substantively less by £280,000.

1918 Official Gaz. (U.S. Patent Office) 4 June 204/2 Each type-bar swinging through substantively more than ninety degrees.

1964 Jrnl. Chronic Dis. 17 634 Such motives cannot hope to add substantively to the knowledge base of clinical practice.

2007 Amer. Printer (Nexis) 1 Sept. 34 The width of the outer edge, or face, of the book..was substantively thicker than the spine.

1828 Examiner 115/2 Substantively, we have alluded to all worth mentioning, it being unnecessary to dwell on some light attendant matter.

1858 W. R. Pirie Inq. Human Mind ii. §2. 92 The French philosophers have..substantively thrown off their allegiance to Reid.

1948 Bull. Atomic Scientists June 189/3 The four-power resolution meant the majority ‘has decided substantively to end the very existence of the Atomic Energy Commission’.

1975 W. Anderson in U.S. Comm. on Organization Govt. for Conduct Foreign Policy Suppl. VII. App. V. iii. A. 259/2 While it could be debated how much was substantively achieved, the meeting was a public sign that the educational freeze was over.

2001 Kenyon Rev. Winter 182 A holograph, for example, takes precedence over a transcript when they are substantively identical.