Definition of substitution
- n. - 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.
- n. - The state of being substituted for another.
- n. - The office or authority of one acting for another;
delegated authority.
- n. - 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.
- n. - The doctrine that Christ suffered vicariously, being
substituted for the sinner, and that his sufferings were expiatory.
- n. - 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.