[ad. mod.L. substrātum.] = SUBSTRATUM.
c. 1810. Coleridge, Lit. Rem. (1838), III. 379. The substrate or causa invisibilis may be the noumenon or actuality, das Ding in sich, of Christ’s humanity, as well as the Ding in sich of which the sensation, bread, is the appearance. Ibid. (1817), Biog. Lit., I. ix. 138. This again is no way conceivable, but by assuming as a postulate, that both are ab initio, identical and co-inherent; that intelligence and being are reciprocally each other’s Substrate.
1822–7. Good, Study Med. (1829), IV. 46. That common substrate which is diffused around us in every direction, and constitutes the whole of the visible world.
1839. Penny Cycl., XIII. 176/1. The notion of substance is … conceived … as a constant and persisting substrate of certain variable qualities or determinations.
1861. Trench, Comm. Ep. Churches Asia, 174. That the substrate of this language, and, so to say, the suggestion of this thought, is to be sought at Isaiah 22, there can be no reasonable doubt.
1886. Encycl. Brit., XXI. 428/2. Albert and Aquinas agree in declaring that the principle of individuation is to be found in matter, not, however, in matter as a formless substrate but in determinate matter (materia signata).
1897. trans. Fichte’s Sci. Ethics, 115. Let us assume an external cause directed upon the substrate of the impulse.
1899. J. W. Powell, 20th Ann. Rep. Bureau Amer. Ethnol. (1903), p. clviii. The same deity can be invoked by many names,… and when another god is addressed, many of the same terms can be employed. The substrate of this custom is found in the concomitancy of qualities and properties.
1910. Contemp. Rev., July, 28. There is reason to believe that the fur substrate [of the garment] was then withdrawn.
