substant, a. and n. rare.
(ˈsʌbstənt)
[ad. L. substans, -ant-, pr. pple. of substāre (see substance).]
A. adj.
1. Substantial; subsistent.
| 1660 Stanley Hist. Philos. ix. ii. (1687) 571/1 The Pythagoreans reduce all Beings, subsistent or substant, immediatly to Idæa's which truly are. 1838 J. E. Reade Italy i. xxv, A substant and eternal memory. |
2. Underlying.
| 1883 Century Mag. XXVII. 146 Its [sc. a glacier's] substant ice curls freely. |
† B. n. A subsisting thing. Obs.
| 1597 J. Payne Royal Exch. 24 The substants of bodie and soule have nothinge commune with this spirituall mariage. |