Category:Substitution

Sub`sti*tu"tion, n. Etym: [l. substitutio: cf. F. substitution.]

1. The act of substituting or putting one person or thing in the Place of another; as, the substitution of an agent, attorney, or Representative to act for one in his absense; the substitution of Bank notes for gold and silver as a circulating medium.

2. The state of being substituted for another.

3. The office or authority of one acting for another; delegated Authority. [r.] Shak.

4. (civil law)

Defn: the designation of a person in a will to take a devise or Legacy, either on failure of a former devisee or legatee by Incapacity or unwillingness to accept, or after him. Burrill.

5. (theol.)

Defn: the doctrine that christ suffered vicariously, being Substituted for the sinner, and that his sufferings were expiatory.

6. (chem.)

Defn: the act or process of substituting an atom or radical for Another atom or radical; metethesis; also, the state of being so Substituted. See metathesis.