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SUBSTITUTION

Volume 3 · 44 words · 1771 Edition

in the civil-law, a disposition of a testament, whereby the testator substitutes one heir for another, who has only the usufruct, and not the property of the thing left him.

SUBTRACTION, in arithmetic. See Arithmetick, p. 370.

Subtraction, in algebra. See Algebra, p. 81.