Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A substitute.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who or that which supplies the place of another; that which is used for something else; a substitute.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Med.) One who, or that which, succeeds to the place of another; that which is used for something else; a substitute
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
substitute ,replacement for something else, particularly of a medicine used in place of another.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun (medicine) something that can be used as a substitute (especially any medicine that may be taken in place of another)
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The order is peculiarly Moslem, in fact the succedaneum for the
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“Líf,” a succedaneum for the unclean sponge, not unknown in the “Turkish Baths” of London.
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Scott renders “pepper” (Lane i. 8) and it forms a clean succedaneum for one of the uncleanest articles of civilisation, the sponge.
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It is very certain, that speculation is no succedaneum for life.
Uncollected Prose 2006
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The observers can demonstrate that they are real observers and not a succedaneum like the Carter Center.
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The observers can demonstrate that they are real observers and not a succedaneum like the Carter Center.
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The bark of the willow has, indeed, been justly considered as a succedaneum for Peruvian bark, as has also that of the horse-chestnut tree, the leaf of the holly, the snake-root, etc. It was evidently necessary to make trial of this substance, although not so valuable as Peruvian bark, and to employ it in its natural state, since they had no means for extracting its essence.
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The bark of the willow has, indeed, been justly considered as a succedaneum for Peruvian bark, as has also that of the horse-chestnut tree, the leaf of the holly, the snake-root, etc. It was evidently necessary to make trial of this substance, although not so valuable as Peruvian bark, and to employ it in its natural state, since they had no means for extracting its essence.
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Besides, since nature supplies cold as sparingly, we must do as the apothecaries do who, when they cannot get a simple, take its succedaneum or quid pro quo, as they call it — such as aloes for balsam, cassia for cinnamon.
The New Organon 2005
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Mr. Rerechild, the Barchester doctor whom she employed; and then the young mother mentioned some shockingly modern succedaneum which
Barchester Towers 2004
jaime_d commented on the word succedaneum
from Trollope
October 1, 2007
yarb commented on the word succedaneum
"...when Pallet recovered his recollection, and swore that he would rather swallow porridge made of burning brimstone, than such an infernal mess as that which he had tasted, the physician, in his own vindication, assured the company, that, except the usual ingredients, he had mixed nothing in the soup but some sal ammoniac instead of the ancient nitrum, which could not now be procured; and appealed to the marquis, whether such a succedaneum was not an improvement on the whole."
— Smollett, Peregrine Pickle
March 1, 2022