Succedaneous

adj

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Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Pertaining to, or acting as, a succedaneum; supplying the place of something else; being, or employed as, a substitute for another. not-comparable

    "Hence the cure of the gout, by our artificial oyls, analogous and succedaneous to the natural."

Example

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"Hence the cure of the gout, by our artificial oyls, analogous and succedaneous to the natural."

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