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Webster 1913 Edition

Adj.

[L.

succedaneus

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Pertaining to, or acting as, a succedaneum; supplying the place of something else; being, or employed as, a substitute for another.

Sir T. Browne.

Adj.

[L. succedaneus; sub and cedo.] Supplying the place of something else; being or employed as a substitute.

succedaneous ‎(comparative more succedaneous, superlative most succedaneous)

Pertaining to, or acting as, a succedaneum; supplying the place of something else; being, or employed as, a substitute for another.^[1]
- 1734, William Stukeley, Of the Gout, J. Roberts, page 16:
  Hence the cure of the gout, by our artificial oyls, analogous and succedaneous to the natural.

↑ succedaneous in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913