adv. [f. SUBSTANTIVE a. + -LY2.]
1. Gram. As a substantive or noun.
1548. Thomas, Ital. Gram., Dict., Somma, substantiuely is the somme or full numbre in reckenyng.
1665. Brinsley, Posing Pts., 131. These Genitives put Substantively, Tanti, quanti.
a. 1680. Glanvill, Sadducismus, II. (1681), 34. To δαιμονιον, is to be understood Substantively for a Person, viz. an Evil Spirit.
1768. Holdsworth, Rem. Virgil, 171. If Galbaneo cannot be used substantively.
1807. G. Chalmers, Caledonia, I. III. ix. 447. Cainianog … was formerly used substantively, for coin of different valuations.
2. As an independent or self-existing person or thing; substantially, inherently.
1598. Bacon, Sacred Medit., Heresies (Arb.), 129. Which actions, they will haue to depende substantiuely and originally, and without any … subordination of causes vpon the will.
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. Mary Wilson, Browning Primer, 43. It may be said of Browning that, adjectively dramatic, he is not substantively a dramatist.
3. In substance or effect, substantially.
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. Hum. Mind, ii. § 2. 92. The French philosophers have already substantively thrown off their allegiance to Reid.
