Definify.com

Webster 1913 Edition

Adj.

[L.

succedaneus

. See

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.