a. Obs. [f. L. succēdāneus (succīdāneus), f. succēdĕre to SUCCEED. Cf. F. succédané, It. succedaneo.]
1. Taking, or serving in, the place of something else; acting as a succedaneum or substitute. Const. to (unto).
In the 17th c. said esp. of medicinal applications or ingredients.
1646. Sir T. Browne, Pseud. Ep., 114. He prescribeth the stones of the Otter, or River-dog, as succedaneous unto Castoreum.
1657. G. Starkey, Helmont’s Vind., 295. By succedaneous secrets the same diseases may be restored, although not with the same speed or universality.
1686. Horneck, Crucif. Jesus, iii. 40. It being taken for granted that the Lord’s Supper was succedaneous to the Passover.
a. 1722. Lisle, Husb. (1757), 245. Being bit off, it has similar succedaneous parts.
1775. Johnson, West. Isl., 302. The Islanders are obliged to content themselves with succedaneous means for many common purposes.
1802–12. Bentham, Ration. Judic. Evid. (1827), IV. 122. In what cases … a succedaneous security shall be accepted at the hands of the plaintiff.
1816. Monthly Rev., LXXIX. 506. Some intelligent editor should undertake to re-engrave the old, and to insert in its proper place the succedaneous matter.
2. Supplementary. rare.
1665. R. Scot’s Discov. Witchcr. (title-p.), In two Books: The First by the aforesaid Author: The Second now added in this Third Edition, as Succedaneous to the former.
1800. Bentham, Corr., Wks. 1843, X. 345/2. If your succedaneous volumes should be as yet unbound. Ibid. (1808), Sc. Reform, 38. In the succedaneous or supplemental plan.
