a. [f. as prec. + -ARY.] = SUBSTITUTIONAL.
1843. J. P. Smith, Four Disc. (ed. 2), Notes 265. Other sacrifices also were symbols of a substitutionary death; for example, the sacrifice for ratifying a covenant;… and the sin-offering on account of a murder perpetrated by some unknown person.
1862. Thrupp, Anglo-Saxon Home, ii. 92. We find another lady with the substitutionary name of the Crow.
1872. Spurgeon, Treas. Dav., Ps. lxxi. 15. The devil rages against the substitutionary sacrifice.
1874. W. P. Roberts, Law & God (1878), 45. The first [of the three stages in the history of sacrifice] is the substitutionary human sacrifice.
1881. C. New, Serm. preached in Hastings, iii. 25. This substitutionary aspect of the Atonement.
1883. E. E. Kay, in Law Rep., 23 Chanc. Div. 739. If the parent was dead at the date of the will … his issue are not able to take under the substitutionary gift.
1896. Academy, 4 July, 5/3. An editor … errs gravely if he introduces thereinto one word of his own, be it substitutionary title or aught else.
1908. Q. Rev., July, 98. He not only succeeded Geoffrey as substitutionary forester of North Petherton Park and Forest under the Mortimer régime, but was constable of Taunton Castle.
